This is a list of people who helped victims to escape from the Nazi Holocaust during World War II.
Leaders
- Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas - Brazilian in charge of the Brazilian diplomat mission in France. He granted Brazilian vistas to several Jews and other minorities persecuted by the Nazis. He was proclaimed as Righteous Among the Nations in 2003. [1] (http://www.raoul-wallenberg.org.ar/Dantas/dantaseng.htm)
- Raoul Wallenberg - Swedish diplomat, saved up to 100,000 Jews. Wallenberg disappeared in January 1945 after saving the lives of tens of thousands Jews condemned to certain death by the Nazis during World War II. He was captured by the Soviet troops which, in January 1945, took control of Budapest.
- Folke Bernadotte - Swedish diplomat, who negotiated the release of 27,000 people (a significant number of which were Jews) to hospitals in Sweden
- Paul Grueninger - Swiss commander of police who provided falsely dated papers to over 3,000 refugees so they could escape Austria following the Anschluss.
- Jan Karski - Polish emissary of Armia Krajowa to Western Allies and eye-witness of the Holocaust.
- Zofia Kossak-Szczucka - Polish founder of Zegota
- Oskar Schindler - German businessman whose efforts to save his Jewish workers were retold in the film Schindler's List
- Bernhard Lichtenberg - German Catholic priest at Berlin's Cathedral. Sent to Dachau because he prayed for Jews at Evening Prayer.
- Paul V. McNutt - United States High Commissioner for the Philippines, 1937-1939, who facilitated the entry of Jewish refugees into the Philippines. [2] (http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/233ab/zbaszynmanila/HarrisCysnerZbaszynManila.htm)
- Aristides Sousa Mendes - Portuguese diplomat in Bordeaux, who signed about 30,000 visas to help Jews and persecuted minorities to escape the Nazis and the Holocaust
- Giovanni Palatucci - Italian police official who saved several thousand
- Giorgio Perlasca - Italian false Spanish consul in Hungary. Saved more than 5,000 Jews in Budapest.
- Traian Popovici - Romanian mayor of Cernăuţi (Chernivtsi): saved 20,000 Jews of Bukovina.
- Manuel L. Quezon - President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, 1935-1941, assisted in resettling Jewish refugees on the island of Mindanao. [3] (http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/233ab/zbaszynmanila/HarrisCysnerZbaszynManila.htm)
- Irena Sendlerowa - Polish head of Zegota children's department: saved 2,500 Jewish children.
- Henryk Slawik - Polish diplomat, saved 5,000-10,000 people in Budapest, Hungary.
- Chiune Sugihara - Japanese consul to Lithuania, 2,140 (mostly Polish) Jews were saved by passports from the Japanese diplomat in 1940.
- Andre Trocme and Magda Trocme - A French pastor and his wife who led the Le Chambon-sur-Lignon village movement that saved 3,000-5,000 Jews.
- Frank Foley - British MI6 agent undercover as a passport officer in Berlin, saved around 10,000 people by issuing forged passports to Britain and Palestine (in British hands at the time).
- Sir Nicholas Winton - British stockbroker who organised the kindertransport which saved mainly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia and Austria after Kristallnacht. [4] (http://www.raoul-wallenberg.org.ar/english/opinionbarucht11.htm)[5] (http://www.just-powell.co.uk/winton)
- Karl Plagge Major in the German Army who issued work permits in order to save almost 1,000 Jews, see The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews, by Michael Good
- Witold Pilecki - the only person who volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz, organised a resistance inside the camp and as member of Armia Krajowa send the first reports on the camp attrocities to the Polish Goverment in Exile, from where they were passed to the rest of the Western Allies
Individual heroes
- Dorota and Antoni Szylar - 7 members of Weltz family
- Jan and Weronika Przybylak - Jakub Einhorn
- Michal Bar - Jakub Lorbenfeld
- Stanislaw Kielar - 2 girls from Reisenbach family
- Julia and Józef Bar - 5 members of Reisenbach family
- Wiktoria and Józef Ulm, their 6 children and unborn baby - shot dead by Germans- Szall and Goldman families
- Corrie ten Boom, rescued many Jews in the Netherlands - was sent to Ravensbrück
- Suzanne Spaak, wealthy socialite who saved Jewish children in France
- Johan Hendrik Weidner, escape network rescued 800 Jews
- Gabrielle Weidner, escape network rescued 800 Jews
- Aristides Sousa Mendes, diplomat who freely issued visas to Jews fleeing to Portugal
- Józef and Stefania Macugowscy, hid six members of the Radza family, and several others, in Nowy Korczyn, Poland.
- Algot Niska Finnish gentleman rogue and alcohol smuggler; smuggled Jews via the Baltics.
- Dorothea Neff, Austrian stage actress
Villages helping Jews
See also
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