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
- Ho Feng Shan the first diplomat who saved Jews by issuing visas for them to let them escape from the Holocaust
- 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
- Exemplary figures 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
- Moshe Bejski The man who created the Garden of the Righteous
- Giuseppe Castruccio the consul who set up the "rescue train"
- 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
- Primo Levi the writer who bore witness to the Holocaust
- Lucillo Merci the captain who helped Guelfo Zamboni rescue Jewish lives
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Diamandis Diamandopoulos he protected a Jewish family
- 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
- Dimitri Klepinin he forged Christening certificates for the persecuted Jews
- Maria Vittoria Zeme the red cross volunteer nurse interned in the nazi lager of Zeithain
- 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
- 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
- Giuliano Pajetta The leader of the Resistance who took care of his companions in the lager, risking his life.
- Ubaldo Pesapane the "scrivener"of Flossenburg who helped the Jews
- 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 for the homeland
- 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
- Franjo Sopianac the Croatian oil baron who hid Jews in his factory, but was persecuted by Tito’s regime
- 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 inmates and painter Aldo Carpi
- Ferdinando Valletti The football player who saved his fellow prisoners and the painter Aldo Carpi
- Vitali-Motta the pastry chefs from Turin who hid a Jewish family