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'Righteous Gentiles' is the phrase used for those non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. At Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem, over 11,000 'Righteous Gentiles' are honored; almost 5,000 are Polish.
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www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shtetl/righteous/
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shtetl/righteous/
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The following five profiles of Righteous Gentiles and their rescue accounts is based on information in the Yad Vashem archives and other relevant sources. The parenthetical numbers following the various rescue accounts indicate the Yad Vashem files from which material is drawn.
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www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shtetl/righteous/genti...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shtetl/righteous/gentilesbios.html
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Those non-Jews who worked at great risk to their personal safety to save Jews became known as the “Righteous Persons” (or sometimes Righteous Gentiles). There are thousands of stories of great valor which will never be told because the Nazis executed many of these Righteous Persons.
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www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/righteou...
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/righteous.html
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Lately, many righteous gentiles have been honored by the Jewish community for saving the lives of Jews before and during the Holocaust. Included among them was the Japanese consul in Kaunas in July 1940, Chiune Sugihara.
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www.remember.org/witness/righteous.html
www.remember.org/witness/righteous.html
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True "Righteous Gentile" Story from World War II ... (Hendrikus Johannes & Geesje Hulstein) ... On November 28th, 1968, the following article appeared in the Vancouver Sun;
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www.bibleprobe.com/hulstein.htm
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However, an important issue researchers have examined is why these so-called righteous Gentiles rescued Jews. What motivated these people to risk their lives to save a people who were depicted as dirty, disease carrying, rodent-like, non-humans?
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www.hallweb.com/Righteous_Gentiles/
www.hallweb.com/Righteous_Gentiles/
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