Thursday, February 28, 2013

The Top 10 Righteous Gentiles

  1. Raoul Wallenberg: Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust by issuing Swedish passports. 
  2. Oscar Schindler: German industrialist who saved 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. 
  3. Carl Lutz: Swiss vice-counsel in Budapest credited with saving over 62,000 people during the Holocaust by issuing Swiss passports. 
  4. Dimitar Peshev: Bulgarian Deputy Speaker who prevented the deportation of Bulgaria’s 48,000 Jews. 
  5. Jose Castellanos Contreras: Salvadoran diplomat who helped save 40,000 Jews by providing them with fake Salvadoran nationality papers. 
  6. Aristides de Sousa Mendes: Saved 12,000 Jews by defying orders and issuing Portuguese visas free of charge. 
  7. Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz: Warned the Jews in Denmark about the pending Nazi plan to deport them, which led to 6,000 Jews quickly escaping to Sweden. 
  8. Ho Feng-Shan: Chinese diplomat in Vienna who saved over 1,000 Jews. Known as “China’s Schindler.” 
  9. Irena Sendler: Saved about 2,500 children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto. 
  10. Chiune Sempo Sugihara: Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews by issuing visas for Jews to go to Japan.

* A "Righteous Gentile" is a term used to describe a non-Jewish person who has gone out of his or her way, to save the lives of Jewish people, usually risking his or her own life in the process.


Schindler's List was an Academy Award winning Best Picture.  It is probably the most famous story of a Righteous Gentile.  Click the image above to get the DVD/Blu-Ray

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