Holocaust
- People recognized as Righteous
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- Carlo Angela he rescued several people in the hospital where he worked
- Gino Bartali the champion who saved Jews
- Giacomo Bassi faking the documents he saved several jews by the deportation
- Father Eugenio Bussa He founded a displacement Colony where he hid several Jewish
- Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz 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
- Ho Feng Shan the first diplomat who saved Jews by issuing visas for them to let them escape from the Holocaust
- Andrée Geulen She saved hundreds of Jewish children
- Italian Righteous among the Nations they helped the Jews by disobeying "racial laws"
- Jan Karski he tried in vain to warn the Great Powers about the genocide against the Jews
- Carl Lutz Swiss diplomat
- Giovanni Palatucci the police officer in Fiume who helped several Jews
- Giorgio Perlasca presenting himself as spanish Ambassador in Hungary he saved 5218 Jews
- Lorenzo Perrone in Auschwitz, he helped the Italian writer Primo Levi
- Dimitar Peshev he rescued 48,000 Bulgarian Jews from deportation
- Irena Sendler the Polish nurse who saved 2500 Jewish children
- Metropolitan Stephan one of the most charismatic representatives of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
- Oddo Stocco, parish priest at San Zenone degli Ezzelini the priest who saved the lives of 50 Jews with the help of the whole village
- Refik Veseli and his family Albanians from Kruja
- Raoul Wallenberg the Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands Jews in Hungary
- Armin T. Wegner He warned the leaders of his time to stop genocide against the Armenians and the Jews
- Stories reported by Gariwo
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- North African Arabs Muslims, officials, aristocrats
- Giobbe Armaroli, Angelo Maltoni, Giovanni Pignatti Righteous from Emilia
- Giovanni Barbareschi founder of OSCAR
- Julius Baumann sacrificed his life to give dignity and joy to Jewish children at the time of Nazism
- Moshe Bejski The man who created the Garden of the Righteous
- Willy Brandt The German Chancellor who knelt down in front of the Holocaust Memorial in Warsaw
- Giuseppe Castruccio the consul who set up the "rescue train"
- Aura Lolita Chavez Human rights activist in Guatemala
- The Chilesotti family prof. Laura Lattes, wanted because she was a Jew, was helped by the Chilesotti family
- De Bernardinis and other rescuers from the Abruzzi the families that hosted the Jews fleeing from Rome
- Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz 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
- Andrée Geulen She saved hundreds of Jewish children
- Kiichiro Higuchi the Japanese officer who saved 2,000 Jews
- Primo Levi the writer who bore witness to the Holocaust
- Lucillo Merci the captain who helped Guelfo Zamboni rescue Jewish lives
- Witold Pilecki a Polish Army soldier who was interned at Auschwitz to witness the horror
- Angelo and Caterina Rizzini they rescued a Jewish woman and her son by hiding them at their home
- Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli architect of Inter-religious Dialogue
- The Women of Rosenstrasse they saved 2.000 Jews with a bold protest on Berlin's Rosenstrasse
- Amedeo Ruggi the young antifascist who took into safety to Switzerland a Jewish family from Imola
- Giuseppe Sala organized the rescue of the Jews with the Opera San Vincenzo
- Sophie Scholl the "white rose" that stood up to Nazism
- Emanuele Stagnaro the Schindler of the seas, who saved 1500 Jews on board of his ship Esperia
- Arturo Toscanini genius of music, patriot and rebel
- Simone Veil 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
- Nicholas Winton the Englishman who successfully evacuated 669 children from Prague
- Fernanda Wittgens inspector of Brera who protected both precious art and the persecuted
- Guelfo Zamboni he opposed the Nazis in order to rescue Italian and Greek Jews
- Stories reported by users
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- Khaled Abdul Wahab a Tunisian Arab who saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust
- Susanna Aimo 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 the mother of San Vittore
- Domenico Amato the lance corporal of the Tax Police who helped Jews expatriate to Switzerland and was deported
- Andrea Ghetti co-founder of OSCAR, together with Don Giovanni Barbareschi
- The city of Assisi how Assisi protected the Jews
- Angelo and Felicita Ballabio milanese spouses who hid in their home a Jewish couple
- Emily Bayer she gave free hospitality to a Jewish family during the war
- Maria Bertolini Fioroni The Italian "mother of the house on the mountain" that hosted numerous fugitives during the Second World War
- Carlo Bianchi he dedicated his life helping those in need, saving the Sonnino-Shapira Jewish family from persecution
- Mario Borsa The anti-fascist journalist who defended the independence and freedom of expression
- Vittorio Castellani The diplomat who protected the Jews in Croatia
- Ettore Castiglioni 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
- Reinhold Chrystman he saved nearly 700 Jews, including many children
- Alessandro Cofini agricultural entrepreneur from Abruzzo who saved the Jewish family Nathan from persecution
- Corrado Bonfantini promoter of the socialist ideals of freedom and social justice.
- Father Placido Cortese A priest who saved several Jewish refugees and soldiers scattered after September 8, 1943.
- Eugenio Damiani Lombard building contractor who transformed his house into a refuge for anti-fascists
- De Regibus Family they hid and saved a Jewish family
- Maurizio Lazzaro de' Castiglioni the general of Mussolini who saved the Jews
- Diamandis Diamandopoulos he protected a Jewish family
- Erich Eder a young Commanding Officer of the Wehrmacht who saved Jewish families from deportation
- Father Piero Folli A brave priest from the Maggiore Lake
- Attilio Francesetti the mountain Righteous
- Fritz Michael Gerlich a journalist against Hitler
- Guglielmo Barbò deported to Flossembürg Camp after having joined the Resistance movement
- Adélaïde Hautval The doctor who treated the Jews in Birkenau refusing to execute the Nazi orders
- Dimitri Klepinin he forged Christening certificates for the persecuted Jews
- Gerhard Kurzbach A Nazi who became a Righteous among the Nations
- Luz Long The German athlete who suggested the winning strategy to his black adversary Jesse Owens, thus becoming a universal symbol of brotherhood among the peoples
- Maria Vittoria Zeme the red cross volunteer nurse interned in the nazi lager of Zeithain
- Emilia Marinelli Valori She risked her own life to organize a secret activity to give hospitality and assistance to many Jews and other people persecuted
- Maria Mascaretti a courageous employee, she put her life on the line to save dozens of Vogherese Jews from persecution
- Raffaele Mattioli The humanist banker who helped his Jewish coworkers to flee, saving them from the racist laws
- Majda Mazovec The Slovenian student in Padua, who became a courier of the Resistance to save civilian and military refugees.
- Father Primo Mazzolari A brave priest who stood up to the Nazi.
- Ugo Moglia displaced in Pedemont, he took away with himself a Jewish family
- Nella Molinari and Luigi Cortile They saved some families in Milan from Nazi persecution by helping them flee to Switzerland
- Father Elio Monari the great man behind a rescue network for Jews and antifascists
- Giorgio Nissim and DELASEM The underground network that successfully saved the lives of over 800 Jews in Tuscany, also with the help of Gino Bartali
- Giorgio Paglia anti-fascist who saved the lives of Jewish children at the risk of his own
- Giuliano Pajetta The leader of the Resistance who took care of his companions in the lager, risking his life.
- Ubaldo Pesapane The scribe of Flossenburg who helped the Jews
- Elizaveta Pilenko-Skobcova (Mother Maria) she helped the Jews by forging baptism certificates
- Antonio Pistocchi Railway engineer who rescued the Jews in Cesena during the Shoah
- Giancarlo Puecher A life dedicated to the homeland, defending the oppressed.
- The Village of Pugliano Vecchio how an entire village sheltered a group of Jews
- Enrico Ricciardi 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
- Piero Gnecchi Ruscone The director of the Opera S. Vincenzo who participated in the Milan rescue network for Jews and others persecuted
- Gilberto Bosques Saldívar the Mexican Schindler
- Paolo Salvatore the director of the concentration camp of Ferramonti di Tarsia
- Father Andrey Sheptytskyy great opponent of the communist and nazi ideologies
- Leonilde Simonazzi 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
- Carlo Tagliabue he saved thirty Jewish women from Nazi-fascist persecution
- The schoolgirls of Rorschach the brave denounce against Helvetic Government's indifference
- The Tosis and the Speranzinos two families who hid 8 Jews in Calcinato
- Angelo and Teresa Tosi They hid eight Jews in Calcinato
- Guido Ucelli di Nemi and Carla Tosi the couple of enlightened enterpreneurs who risked everything to hide some Jews
- Ferdinando Valletti The football player who saved his fellow prisoners and the painter Aldo Carpi
- Maria Lucia Vandone (Cicci) anti-fascist that saved the lives of Jewish children at the risk of her own
- Vitali-Motta the pastry chefs from Turin who hid a Jewish family