Stories reported by users
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- De Regibus Family they hid and saved a Jewish family
- 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
- 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
- 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 e 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
Tales and testimony
of Righteous people in the Holocaust
There are numerous stories of rescue of the Jews from the Nazi fury during World War Two, which are still little known or have even remained unknowwn. In this section we feature the tales and testimony sent to the Forest of the Righteous Committee or that have reached our Website from those who want to inform people about a little known or overlooked event when rescue, aid, solidarity and human kindness were expressed in the gloomy times of hatred and persecutions.
Some events still need be evalued by Yad Vashem's Righteous Commission, where the inquiry in sight of the bestowment of the title of Righteous among the nations is started.