Yad Vashem
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The Pharmacist of the Krakow Ghetto
Tadeusz Pankiewicz was named Righteous Among the Nations for his work as the pharmacist in Krakow's Ghetto who helped save Jews during the Holocaust.
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An Orphan and Holocaust Hero
An orphan from a poor farming family in Belarus, this teenager risked her life to save Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust.
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The Christian Student Who Outsmarted the Nazis
Germaine Ribiere was a Christian student in France during WWII who did all she could, including disguising herself as a cleaning lady in a Nazi-occupied building, to save her Jewish neighbors.
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Roddie Edmonds: American POW and Righteous Gentile
An American soldier taken prisoner by the Nazis during WWII, Roddie Edmonds saved the lives of 200 fellow American POWs who were Jewish.
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They Called Her Grandma
The story of a Ukrainian Christian who took in a sick Jewish woman, who her children called "Grandma," and sheltered her from the Nazis despite the danger it posed to her own family.
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‘Tante Ciel’ – A Schoolteacher and a Righteous Gentile
Caecilia Loots was a Dutch schoolteacher who sheltered and saved Jewish children during World War II.
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From Opera Star to Holocaust Hero
A Lithuanian opera tenor, Kipras Petrauskas and his wife gave up their lives and careers to shelter and save the daughter of a Jewish friend and colleague.
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A Question of Human Values
Jerzy and Irena Krepec were Righteous Gentiles in Poland who helped shelter Jews during the Holocaust, and provided these refugees with food, clothing, and love.
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A Doctor and ‘Friend of the Jews’
A Christian psychiatrist sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, Dr. Adelaide Hautval cared for and treated the Jewish prisoners housed with her there.
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My Only Light in Vast Darkness: A Tatar Family of Holocaust Heroes
A Tatar mother and daughter in Belarus, Fatima and Aysha saved an entire Jewish family from certain death during the Holocaust.
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The Teacher Who Saved His Jewish Students
Johan Benders was a Dutch teacher who sheltered and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
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Righteous Gentiles and the Doctor’s Daughter
Righteous Gentiles Vladimir and Galina Imshennik saved a Jewish girl from the Nazis, raising her as their own.
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