Featured Stories

Featured here are a number of rescue stories of Righteous Among the Nations.
Please check back with us as we will continue to expand this section.

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Latest Stories

• Seder at the Parish NEW!
• Surviving with a Muslim Identity in Warsaw NEW!
• "He Actually Saved 40 Souls" NEW!
• Rescue in the Sewers  NEW!
• From the Killing Site to a Welcoming Family  NEW!
• The Nanny That Kept Her Promise  NEW!
• The Port Worker Who Turned Rescuer  NEW!
• A Mother's Deathbed Confession  NEW!
• Rescue in Odessa  NEW!
• Chinese Visas in Vienna  NEW!
• Here Is the List of Jews You Required  NEW!
• The Mother Superior’s Tears NEW!
• The Unexpected Guest  NEW!
• The Life Saving Stay in the Hospital  NEW!
• The Failed Attempt to Rescue Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum  NEW!
• The Westerweel Network  NEW!
• Murdered by Their Neighbors  NEW!
• Murder in Markowa  NEW!
• Shelter During the Massacres  NEW!
• The Memory of the Armenian Genocide 
• The Murder of the Fisherman and his Wife
• Hiding in Graves in a Cemetery
• The Forrester’s Sacrifice
• The Rescue of the Future Chief Justice 
• The Partisan who Defied his Comrades
• The Actress’ Finest Role
• A Call for Help to Sotirios
• “You can take my body, but not my soul”
• Teaching the Rescuer’s Daughters Math and Reading 
• “Saint Feodosiya” 
• “There is not much to report here on the way to heaven”
• “Goodbye Children”
• The Bond between Rescuers and the Children they Saved
• The Soccer (Football) Player who Turned Rescuer
• The Courageous Student
• Flight to Japan and China
• A Love that Knew No Bounds
• "Our Helpers" in the Secret Annex
• Milena – Franz Kafka's Love
• Shmuel Eliraz’ Lost Childhood
• Nouf-Nouf’s Rescue
• Documenting the Missing Years
• “Our heart….generated the necessary courage”
• The Memory of Feodor’s Goodness
• "I felt sorry for him"
• Jedwabne – A Noble Family in the Midst of Murder and Betrayal 
• Remembering Little Loesje
• In Search of Esther 
• The Partisan and the Old Woman
• The Rescue of a Childhood Friend
• “I am unable to serve with loyalty”
• Three Boys in the Studite Monastery  
• The "Pianist"’s Rescuer
  
• "The Forest, My Friend"
  
• The Life Saving Stamp Collection
  
• Paying the Ultimate Price
  
• Rescue in the Royal Palace
• Rescue in a Circus  
• The Assisi Network 
• A Baby in a Parcel
• Anna of the Angels
• British POWs 
• Office Romance and Rescue
• Rescue by a Fashion Queen 
• Priests, Farmers and Noblemen  
• The SS officer's Gift of Candy
• A Father's Birthday Gift
• Dreaming of America
• Unknown Children
• The Maid who Became Rescuer
• An American in Marseille
• 18 Months in a Haystack  
• Geulen's List
• The Witness to Murder Who Decided to Act
• The Policeman who Lifted the Border Barrier
• Muslim Rescuers in Sarajevo
• Shelter for a Little Girl
• The Unusual Fate of Two Sisters
• "The Hand of a Child Around a Mother's Neck"
• The Envoy
• Eli Levin's Search into the Past
• An Impossible Dilemma
• The Insubordinate Consul  
• The Devoted Teacher
• The Priest's Request 
• Contesting the Deportations in Parliament
• The Insurgent Mayor
• A Tale of Two French Butchers 
• Schindler 
• The Soldier "Whose Heart was in Jewish Matters"
• The Secret of the Janitor's Cellar
• Smuggling Children out of the Ghetto
• Visas to Japan 
• The Heroic Village Idiot
• Into Wiktoria's Arm
• With Fishing Boats to Sweden  
• Le Chambon-sur-Lignon  
• Muslim rescuers in Albania  
• Infants in Milk Cans
• Swedish Rescuer in Budapest  
• Over the Ghetto Walls
• Hiding in Cages in the Zoo