Garden of Washington
In Washington the Righteous are remembered next to the synagogue
1992 saw the first ceremony at Adas Israel Garden of the Righteous, where Jan Karski was honoured as the first Righteous.
Every year a plaque is placed in a corner in front of the synagogue in the presence of the Righteous or a relative, or those who have received his help. In 2008 the honours were bestowed on Tunisia's Khaled Abdul Wahab, for whom a tree would be planted the following year in the Garden of the Righteous worldwide in Milan.
In the website of Adas Israel Congregation the section devoted to the Garden contains a list of the Righteous people who have been honoured until now.
People honoured in this Garden
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| Khaled Abdul Wahab a Tunisian Arab who saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust |
| Ioakim Alexopoulos [biography on external website] he saved the lives of 700 Jews, refusing to return a list of the Nazis |
| Hiram Bingham [biography on external website] granted more than 2,500 visas to Jews and refugees to escape to the United States of America |
| Father Bruno (Henri Reynders) and Mr. Georges Ranson [biography on external website] recognized as "Righteous among the Nations", they helped many Jews during the Second World War |
| José Arturo Castellanos [biography on external website] El Salvador's consul in Geneva; during the war passed 40,000 passports and birth certificates for Jews from different countries |
| Heinz Drossel [biography on external website] forced to enlist in the German army, he never joined the Nazi Party and helped many prisoners to escape |
| Lillian Gaffney and Germaine Belline [biography on external website] a mother and her daughter, who during the war saved more than 30 lives |
| Family Gauvin [biography on external website] they saved 20 Jewish families during the war |
| Magdalena Horvath [biography on external website] she risked his own life and that of her two young children to hide many Jewish members of the husband's family |
| Jan Karski he tried in vain to warn the Great Powers about the genocide against the Jews |
| Sabina Kazimierczyk and Maria Jankowski [biography on external website] during the Holocaust they hide five Jews five for 17 months in their home |
| Giuliana Lestini [biography on external website] she hid many Jews in a convent in Rome |
| Tole Madna and Mima Saina [biography on external website] they saved a child from the Nazi fury, taking care of him as a son |
| Preben Munch Nielsen [biography on external website] he saved 7,000 Danish Jews, with small boats to Sweden |
| Jaap Penraat [biography on external website] he falsified hundreds of documents to allow many Dutch Jews to flee abroad |
| Vasilis Persedis [biography on external website] he helped many Jews in Greece to escape from the Nazis, leading over the mountains where trovarano salvation by sea |
| Marion Pritchard [biography on external website] during World War II, she hid many Jews and fired at a German soldier to protect them |
| Bruno Rozentals [biography on external website] with his family, he saved 36 Jews by hiding them in the tunnels and the rooms dug under their house and in the barn |
| Irena Sendler the Polish nurse who saved 2500 Jewish children |
| Tina Strobos [biography on external website] with her family, she saved many Jews by providing them food, shelter and fals documents |
| Magdelena Stroe [biography on external website] she saved the Jewish friend Hanna Kende during the Holocaust |
| Alicja Szczepaniak Schnepf and Natalia Szczepaniak [biography on external website] they hid in their house many Jews during the Nazi persecution |
| Raoul Wallenberg the Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands Jews in Hungary |
| Eugene de Thassy [biography on external website] he saved many Jewish families during the war years |
| Aristides de Sousa Mendes the Portuguese consul who helped the Jews to leave France |