The official Hebrew name for Holocaust Remembrance Day, is Yom Hazikaron L’Shoah V’Lagvurah (Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day). By using the term gvurah, heroism, we usually refer to the Jewish heroes who went through the atrocities of the Holocaust.
However, there is another type of heroism that we can find in the Holocaust, and that is the heroism of the Righteous Among the Nations. Non Jews who defied all of their surroundings, who went against the laws of their countries, who acted differently than all of their society, who risked their own lives, and very often the lives of their families, all in order to save Jews.
Click here to read stories of the Righteous Among the Nations, the rescuers.
Yael Rosen
Project Coordinator, Righteous Among the Nations
