Armenian Righteous Among the Nations

“Having witnessed the Armenian Genocide, we decided to save them” Pran Tashchiyan

A wall in the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations, Yad Vashem Rita Gorodnichenko's (Golberg) visit to Yerevan.The families of the rescuers' and the rescued Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations, Yad Vashem Yervante and Elbis Beurkdjian Survivor Caroline Elbaz (left) and Liliane de Toledo, daughter and granddaughter of the Righteous, unveiling the names of the rescuers on the wall of honor, Yad Vashem, December 2011 Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations, Yad Vashem

Among the rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust were Armenians - some of them motivated by the memory of the atrocities committed against them at the beginning of the 20th century. These acts of rescue took place where the Armenians fled subsequent to the genocide - Ukraine, Crimea, France, Hungary, and Austria.