Righteous for Remembrance

The Righteous are not only people who sacrificed themselves or risked their lives to save other people victims of racism, anti-Semitism and violence, but also those who made the Truth known about what was happening and did happen and fought to keep alive the Memory of the facts and people who were victims of Evil, as well as those who fought it.

These are witnesses, historians, intellectuals who, risking their lives, their freedom, their careers, made sure that truth was known and not forgotten.

The Righteous for Remembrance have made "counter-information," breaking the wall of silence and fear that often favors the triumph of lies and oblivion. Here you can find some of these exemplary figures, which Gariwo has collected and researched over the years.

Charter of Remembrance of Gariwo

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Moshe Bejski

1920 - 2007

The man who created the Garden of the Righteous

Willy Brandt

1913 - 1992

The German Chancellor who knelt down in front of the Holocaust Memorial in Warsaw

Guillermo Chen

Campaigner for justice for the Maya massacres

Yuli Daniel

1925 - 1988

Russian educator who struggled for prisoners' rights in the Soviet Union

Hrant Dink

1954 - 2007

Journalist who promoted dialogue and reconciliation between Turks and Armenians

Jurij Dmitriev

1956

The historian of Memorial convicted on false charges for his inconvenient work on the remembrance of the victims of Stalinism

Yuri Galanskov

1939 - 1972

The poet of Majakovskji Square

Vasily Grossman

1905 - 1964

In his Life and Fate he denounced the crimes of both communism and nazism

Vera Vigevani Jarach

1928

The journalist and activist who bears witness to the memory of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Karl Jaspers

1883 - 1969

German philosopher who refused to bend to the Nazi regime and laid the foundations of the elaboration of the Shoah's responsibilities

Gareth Jones

1905 - 1935

Welsh journalist who revealed the Holodomor

Jan Karski

1914 - 2000

He tried in vain to warn the Great Powers about the genocide against the Jews

Hersch Lauterpacht

1897 - 1960

British jurist, advisor at the Nuremberg Trials and creator of the Charter of Human Rights

Primo Levi

1919 - 1987

The writer who bore witness to the Holocaust

Hasan Nuhanovic

1968

The accuser of Srebrenica

Latinka Perovic

1933

The first person in Serbia to call Srebrenica a genocide

Varlam Shalamov

1907 - 1982

Anti-stalinist poet who published the tale of his imprisonment in Siberia

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

1918 - 2008

Author of The Gulag Archipelago

Simone Veil

1927 - 2017

A Holocaust survivor, she was a magistrate, minister, and the first woman President of the European Parliament and also the first to preside over the directly elected European Parliament

Rodolfo Walsh

1927 - 1977

The journalist who denounced the Videla regime

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Speech by Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the value of Remembrance

The Capitol Rotunda, Washington DC, Days of Remembrance

May the memory of those who perished remain vibrant to all who dwell in this fair land, people of every color and creed. May that memory strengthen our resolve to aid those at home and abroad who suffer from injustice born of ignorance and intolerance, to combat crimes that stem from racism and prejudice, and to remain ever engaged in the quest for democracy and respect for the human dignity of all the world’s people.

István Bibó, the greatest Hungarian democracy fighter

by Julia Vasarhelyi

István Bibó has been the greatest democratic thinker of the Twentieth Century. Jurist, political scientist, essayist, scholar specialised in the problems of democracy in Hungary and Central Europe, was a free spirit who anticipated in his essays the subject of human, ethnic and social rights in Hungary.

Simone Veil honoured with Pantheon burial

the speech by Emmanuel Macron

"And when she decided to be a testimony of her deportation, it was first to pay homage to the Righteous of France. She rose against those who portrayed a France won by the antisemitic delusions of HITLER, PETAIN and LAVAL, to recall the incredible and spontaneous courage of those French families who, at the risk of their lives, had hidden Jews children, saving them from persecution and an atrocious death", by Emmanuel Macron.