Angelo and Felicita Ballabio

Khaled Abdul Wahab

1911 - 1997

A Tunisian Arab who saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust

Father Gianantonio Agosti

1886 - 1967

The priest who hid and saved numerous Jews during the Shoah

Susanna Aimo

1891 - 1975

Housekeeper of the Segre family since the early 1900s, she was ready to take risks for all the members of the family and kept their objects until the war was over

Sister Enrichetta Alfieri

1891 - 1951

The mother of San Vittore

Domenico Amato

1905 - 1945

The lance corporal of the Tax Police who helped Jews expatriate to Switzerland and was deported

Carlo Angela

1875 - 1949

He rescued several people in the hospital where he worked

North African Arabs

Muslims, officials, aristocrats

Mother Luisa Arlotti

1904 - 1988

The canossian sister who hid and treated several partisans during the war of Liberation

Giobbe Armaroli, Angelo Maltoni, Giovanni Pignatti

Righteous from Emilia

The city of Assisi

How Assisi protected the Jews

Albino Badinelli

1920 - 1944

The policeman who turned himself in to the Nazi-Fascists to save 20 hostages and the whole country from the retaliation

Angelo and Felicita Ballabio

Milanese spouses who hid in their home a Jewish couple

Giovanni Barbareschi

1922 - 2018

Founder of OSCAR

Guglielmo Barbò

1888 - 1944

Deported to Flossembürg Camp after having joined the Resistance movement

Gino Bartali

1914 - 2000

The champion who saved Jews

Giacomo Bassi

1896 - 1968

He saved several jews from deportation by providing them fake documents

Julius Baumann

1898 - 1942

Sacrificed his life to give dignity and joy to Jewish children at the time of Nazism

Emily Bayer

She gave free hospitality to a Jewish family during the war

Moshe Bejski

1920 - 2007

The man who created the Garden of the Righteous

Maria Bertolini Fioroni

1900 - 1987

The Italian "mother of the house on the mountain" that hosted numerous fugitives during the Second World War

Carlo Bianchi

1912 - 1944

He dedicated his life helping those in need, saving the Sonnino-Shapira Jewish family from persecution

Paolo Boetti

1901 - 1965

He contributed to the Liberation of Italy by acting as a courier and helping Jews and political refugees to escape to Switzerland

Corrado Bonfantini

1909 - 1989

Promoter of the socialist ideals of freedom and social justice

Mario Borsa

1870 - 1952

The anti-fascist journalist who defended the independence and freedom of expression

Bruno Brandellero

1922 - 1944

During the Resistance, he chose to sacrifice himself to save the lives of seventeen innocent civilians

Willy Brandt

1913 - 1992

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

Father Eugenio Bussa

1904 - 1977

He founded a displacement Colony where he hid several Jewish

Vittorio Castellani

1902 - 1972

The diplomat who protected the Jews in Croatia

Achille Castelli

1883 - 1957

The National Councilor of the PNF who saved the persecuted and refused to hand over his employees

Ettore Castiglioni

1908 - 1944

He guided and took to safety Jews and political persecuted through Alpine passes

Sister Donata Castrezzati

The Mother Superior who hid several Jews and victims of political persecution in his elder care institute

Giuseppe Castruccio

1887 - 1985

The consul who set up the "rescue train"

Ernesto Cattaneo

He contributed to the rescue of a Jewish child from Nazi persecution

Dina Cerioli

1925 - 2023

The last witness of the "secret house" of Magenta, a refugee for jews during the Holocaust

The Chilesotti family

Prof. Laura Lattes, wanted because she was a Jew, was helped by the Chilesotti family

Gianfranco Maria Chiti

1921 - 2004

The general who saved the lives of more than 200 partisans and persecuted Jews

Anna Christensen

When the danger to Jews increased, she organized, with the help of her friends, hiding places for the Jewish children

Reinhold Chrystman

He saved nearly 700 Jews, including many children

Alessandro Cofini

1911 - 2003

Agricultural entrepreneur from Abruzzo who saved the Jewish family Nathan from persecution

Elvira Colombo Cattaneo

She contributed to the rescue of a Jewish child from Nazi persecution

Father Placido Cortese

1907 - 1944

A priest who saved several Jewish refugees and soldiers scattered after September 8, 1943.

Nella Molinari and Luigi Cortile

They saved some families in Milan from Nazi persecution by helping them flee to Switzerland

Eugenio Damiani

1872 - 1944

Lombard building contractor who transformed his house into a refuge for anti-fascists

De Bernardinis and other rescuers from the Abruzzi

The families that hosted the Jews fleeing from Rome

De Regibus Family

They hid and saved a Jewish family

Maurizio Lazzaro de' Castiglioni

1888 - 1962

The general of Mussolini who saved the Jews

Diamandis Diamandopoulos

1932

He protected a Jewish family

Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz

1904 - 1973

A Nazi who saved more than 7,000 Danish Jews from deportation when he worked for the Merchant Navy at the German embassy in Denmark

Knud Dyring Dyby

1915 - 2011

Young Danish policeman who helped Jews escape the persecution

Marek Edelman

1919 - 2009

Vice commander of the Warsaw insurrection

Erich Eder

1924 - 1998

A young Commanding Officer of the Wehrmacht who saved Jewish families from deportation

Ho Feng Shan

1901 - 1997

The first diplomat who saved Jews by issuing visas for them to let them escape from the Holocaust

Father Giovanni Ferro

1901 - 1992

A priest of the Somaschi Fathers, during the war he hid and saved the life of the Jewish boy Roberto Furcht

Ellen Fogh

1889 - 1958

In October 1943, Ellen Fogh and her son Fredrik Fogh saved the lives of 9 Jews, and helped many others

Father Piero Folli

1881 - 1948

A brave priest from the Maggiore Lake

Attilio Francesetti

1926 - 2010

The mountain Righteous

Varian Mackey Fry

1907 - 1967

American journalist who obtained documents and visas for 4 thousands people to help them escaping Nazi persecutions in France

Fritz Michael Gerlich

1883 - 1934

A journalist against Hitler

Andrée Geulen

1921 - 2022

She saved hundreds of Jewish children

Andrea Ghetti

1912 - 1980

Co-founder of OSCAR, together with Don Giovanni Barbareschi

Caterina Giordano

She faked a pregnancy to save a Jewish family during the Holocaust

Piero Gnecchi Ruscone

1902 - 1997

The director of the Opera S. Vincenzo who participated in the Milan rescue network for Jews and others persecuted

Sister Maria Goglia

1910 - 1996

Along with her sisters she saved numerous Jews during the Shoah

Ginette Guy

Member of the French Resistance, tortured by the Gestapo, she fought against the violence of the occupiers and hid Jewish children

Adélaïde Hautval

1906 - 1988

The doctor who treated the Jews in Birkenau refusing to execute the Nazi orders

Kiichiro Higuchi

1888 - 1970

The Japanese officer who saved 2,000 Jews

Etty Hillesum

1914 - 1943

Was the author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation

Italian Righteous among the Nations

They helped the Jews by disobeying "racial laws"

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

Jan Karski

1914 - 2000

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

Dimitri Klepinin

1904 - 1944

He forged Christening certificates for the persecuted Jews

Patriarch Konstantin Kiril

1901 - 1971

With his tenacity, between 1943 and 1944, he prevented the deportation of Bulgarian Jews to the extermination camps

Janusz Korczak

1878 - 1942

Educator, he followed the Jewish children into the Warsaw Ghetto and in deportation

Ciril Kotnik

1895 - 1948

Diplomat who saved Jews and anti-fascists, died from the torture suffered by the Nazis

Gerhard Kurzbach

1915 - 1944

A Nazi who became a Righteous among the Nations

The schoolgirls of Rorschach

The brave denounce against Helvetic Government's indifference

Primo Levi

1919 - 1987

The writer who bore witness to the Holocaust

Father Paolo Liggeri

1911 - 1996

He worked for the building of the La Casa social assistance center, saving political and Jewish persecuted people

Luz Long

1913 - 1943

The German athlete who suggested the winning strategy to his black adversary Jesse Owens, thus becoming a universal symbol of brotherhood among the peoples

Carl Lutz

1895 - 1975

Swiss diplomat

Emilia Marinelli Valori

1902 - 1988

She risked her own life to organize a secret activity to give hospitality and assistance to many Jews and other people persecuted

Knud Marstrand Christensen

Along with his wife, he managed to save dozens of Jews by hiding them first and then transporting them to Sweden

Maria Mascaretti

1901 - 1979

A courageous employee, she put her life on the line to save dozens of Vogherese Jews from persecution

Raffaele Mattioli

1895 - 1973

The humanist banker who helped his Jewish coworkers to flee, saving them from the racist laws

Majda Mazovec

1920 - 2015

The Slovenian student in Padua, who became a courier of the Resistance to save civilian and military refugees.

Father Primo Mazzolari

1890 - 1959

A brave priest who stood up to the Nazi.

Father Lido Mencarini

1916 - 2007

The priest who saved dozens of Jews from deportation during the Holocaust in Cantù

Lucillo Merci

1899 - 1984

The captain who helped Guelfo Zamboni rescue Jewish lives

Ugo Moglia

Displaced in Pedemont, he took away with himself a Jewish family

Father Elio Monari

1913 - 1944

The great man behind a rescue network for Jews and antifascists

Giorgio Nissim and DELASEM

1908 - 1976

The underground network that successfully saved the lives of over 800 Jews in Tuscany, also with the help of Gino Bartali

Giorgio Paglia

1922 - 1944

Anti-fascist who saved the lives of Jewish children at the risk of his own

Giuliano Pajetta

1915 - 1988

The leader of the Resistance who took care of his companions in the lager, risking his life.

Giovanni Palatucci

1909 - 1945

The police officer in Fiume who helped several Jews

Giorgio Perlasca

1910 - 1992

Presenting himself as spanish Ambassador in Hungary he saved 5218 Jews

Lorenzo Perrone

1904 - 1952

A bricklayer at Auschwitz, he helped Primo Levi resist in the concentration camp

Ubaldo Pesapane

1907 - 1980

The scribe of Flossenburg who helped the Jews

Dimitar Peshev

1894 - 1973

He rescued 48,000 Bulgarian Jews from deportation

Robert Petersen

1911 - 2001

Risking his life, along with his wife he saved several Jewish people by first hiding them and then helping them to reach Sweden

Harald Petersen

? - 1994

In 1943, he saved the life of a Jewish couple and their one and a half year old son

Witold Pilecki

1901 - 1948

A Polish Army soldier who was interned at Auschwitz to witness the horror

Elizaveta Pilenko-Skobcova (Mother Maria)

1891 - 1945

She helped the Jews by forging baptism certificates

Antonio Pistocchi

1899 - 1965

Railway engineer who rescued the Jews in Cesena during the Shoah

Giancarlo Puecher

1923 - 1943

A life dedicated to the homeland, defending the oppressed.

The Village of Pugliano Vecchio

How an entire village sheltered a group of Jews

The crew of the Transatlantic Rex

From 1933 to 1940 it transported 30,000 to 50,000 persecuted Jews to the United States

Enrico Ricciardi

1925 - 2001

He rescued the Jews by providing them with forged documents

Silvio Rivoir

The register office clerk from Torre Pellice who forged documents to rescue Jews and partisans

Angelo and Caterina Rizzini

They rescued a Jewish woman and her son by hiding them at their home

Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli

1881 - 1963

Architect of Inter-religious Dialogue

The Women of Rosenstrasse

They saved 2.000 Jews with a bold protest on Berlin's Rosenstrasse

Amedeo Ruggi

1920 - 1971

The young antifascist who took into safety to Switzerland a Jewish family from Imola

Giuseppe Sala

1886 - 1974

Organized the rescue of the Jews with the Opera San Vincenzo

​Gilberto Bosques Saldívar

1892 - 1995

The Mexican Schindler

Paolo Salvatore

1899 - 1980

The director of the concentration camp of Ferramonti di Tarsia

Hans Scholl

1918 - 1943

The “white rose” who challenged Nazism together with his sister Sophie

Sophie Scholl

1921 - 1943

The white rose that stood up to Nazism

Irena Sendler

1910 - 2008

The Polish nurse who saved 2500 Jewish children

Klemens Sheptytsky

1869 - 1951

The Greek Catholic clergyman who saved 150 Jews

Father Andrey Sheptytskyy

1865 - 1944

Great opponent of the communist and nazi ideologies

Leonilde Simonazzi

1906 - 1992

She saved Jews, with courage and disinterest, by helping them to expatriate to Switzerland

The Sopianac family

The family that hid the Jews on the premises of their company. They helped and saved many Jewish families.

Franjo Sopianac

The Croatian oil baron who hid Jews in his factory, but was persecuted by Tito’s regime

Aristides de Sousa Mendes

1885 - 1954

The Portuguese consul who helped the Jews to leave France

Emanuele Stagnaro

The Schindler of the seas, who saved 1500 Jews on board of his ship Esperia

Metropolitan Stephan

One of the most charismatic representatives of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Giulia Galletti Stiffoni

Her cunning and charm save the lives of Mrs. Weiss and other fugitives during one of the periodic fascist searches

Oddo Stocco, parish priest at San Zenone degli Ezzelini

1892 - 1958

The priest who saved the lives of 50 Jews with the help of the whole village

Carlo Tagliabue

He saved thirty Jewish women from Nazi-fascist persecution

Father Girolamo Tagliaferro

He welcomed and assisted partisans, Jews and political fugitives, procuring false documents for some of them to reach Switzerland

Mother Superior Teresa

She contributed to the rescue of a Jewish child from Nazi persecution

Lodovico Targetti

1902 - 1971

He welcomed fleeing Jews into his home, often accompanying them towards the border with Switzerland

Arturo Toscanini

1867 - 1957

Genius of music, patriot and rebel

Antonio Tosi

1902 - 1953

During the persecution of the Jews, he helped the sculptor Arrigo Minerbi escape to Rome

The Tosis and the Speranzinos

Two families who hid 8 Jews in Calcinato

Angelo and Teresa Tosi

They hid eight Jews in Calcinato

Marian Turski

1926 - 2025

A survivor of the Holocaust, he dedicated his life to memory and moral responsibility

Guido Ucelli di Nemi and Carla Tosi

The couple of enlightened enterpreneurs who risked everything to hide some Jews

Ferdinando Valletti

1921 - 2007

The football player who saved his fellow prisoners and the painter Aldo Carpi

Maria Lucia Vandone (Cicci)

1924

Anti-fascist that saved the lives of Jewish children at the risk of her own

Simone Veil

1927 - 2017

A Holocaust survivor, first woman President of the European Parliament

​Refik Veseli and his family

Albanians from Kruja

Vitali-Motta

The pastry chefs from Turin who hid a Jewish family

Arminio Wachsberger

1913 - 2002

The interpreter of Auschwitz

Raoul Wallenberg

1912 - 1947

The Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands Jews in Hungary

Armin T. Wegner

1886 - 1978

He warned the leaders of his time to stop genocide against the Armenians and the Jews

Otto Weidt

1883 - 1947

The entrepreneur who saved his workers in his brush factory

Nicholas Winton

1909 - 2015

The Englishman who successfully evacuated 669 children from Prague

Fernanda Wittgens

1903 - 1957

Inspector of Brera who protected both precious art and the persecuted

Guelfo Zamboni

1897 - 1994

He opposed the Nazis in order to rescue Italian and Greek Jews

Maria Vittoria Zeme

1916 - 2005

The red cross volunteer nurse interned in the nazi lager of Zeithain