Category:Non-Jewish Rescuers (subject)

Oliner (1988)

Non-Jewish Rescuers / Righteous among the Nations (see Holocaust Children Studies)

• See Jewish Rescuers / Jews Rescued Jews

Overview

Notable persons

Warsaw Ghetto

• Irena Sendler (F / Poland, 1910-2008) -- From October 1943 she was head of the children's section of Żegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews (Polish: Rada Pomocy Żydom). Sendler participated, with dozens of others, in smuggling Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then providing them with false identity documents and shelter with willing Polish families or in orphanages and other care facilities, including Catholic nun convents, saving those children from the Holocaust.

See also Jewish Rescuers :

• Janusz Korczak / Henryk Goldszmit (M / Poland, 1878-1942), Holocaust victim
• Stefania Wilczyńska (F / Poland, 1886-1942), Holocaust victim

Budapest Ghetto

• Raoul Wallenberg (M / Sweden, 1912-1945)
• Giorgio Perlasca (M / Italy, 1910-1992)

Buchenwald

• Antonín Kalina (M / Czechia, 1902-1990) -- A communist prisoner, head of Block 66 in Buchenwald.

Schindler's List

• Oskar Schindler (M / Germany, 1908-1974) -- Schindler was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews (including numerous children) during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Hollandse Schouwberg (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

• Johan van Hulst (M / Netherlands, 1911-2018) -- In 1943, with the help of the Dutch resistance and students of the nearby University of Amsterdam, he was instrumental in saving over 600 Jewish children from the nursery of the Hollandsche Schouwburg who were destined for deportation to Nazi concentration camps. For his humanitarian actions he received the Yad Vashem distinction Righteous Among the Nations from the State of Israel in 1973.

See also Jewish Rescuers :

• Walter Süskind (1906-1945)
• Henriette Pimentel (1876-1943)
• Raphael Halverstad (1904-1978)