A story collection
Righteous Among the Nations
When the world was silent in the face of genocide, they risked their lives and the lives of their loved ones to save Jews. Read here about this small light in the great darkness.
Eduard Schulte
The prominent German industrialist who knew the Third Reich's most closely guarded secret and refused to stay silent. While everyone else turned a blind eye to evil, he risked his life to reveal the machinery of extermination to the world.
Odoardo Focherini
A devout Catholic journalist who became the director of an underground network that saved Jews from the clutches of the Gestapo. He paid with his life for acting as Italy's Schindler, proving that courage knows no boundaries.
Olga Sarah Fisher
A mother and her three daughters opened their home to persecuted refugees when doing so meant certain death. Their uncompromising courage led them to convert to Judaism at the end of the war and build their lives in Israel.
Elizabeth Eidenbenz
The Swiss teacher who established a maternity hospital in an abandoned building on French soil under occupation. There, under the watchful eyes of the Nazis, she saved hundreds of babies and mothers from deportation to the camps.
Alice von Battenberg
The wife of a Greek prince and mother of Prince Philip, she sheltered Jews in her home during the Holocaust and became one of the Righteous Among the Nations, buried in Jerusalem.
Alma Rosé
The virtuoso violinist who fought for her friends' lives with a conductor's baton at Auschwitz. With every note her orchestra played in the inferno, she bought another moment of life and hope for 40 women.
Aristides de Sousa Mendes
The Portuguese diplomat who defied his government's orders and signed thousands of life-saving visas in just a few days. He lost his position, wealth, and good name in order to save tens of thousands of refugees from extermination.
Ernst Leitz II
The man behind the legendary Leica cameras turned his life's work into a brilliant rescue operation. He smuggled dozens of Jewish employees abroad under the cover story that they were business representatives.
Gino Bartali
The Tour de France champion who rode his bicycle with forged documents hidden inside its steel frame. He played the part of an athlete out training, while quietly saving hundreds of lives.
Gerhard Kurzbach
Why does a photograph of a Wehrmacht commander hang on the wall of a Holocaust survivor's home in Haifa? Discover the story of the officer who defied orders, hid hundreds of Jews, and paid for it with his life.
Dervish Korkut
The Muslim scholar from Sarajevo who rescued the rare Sarajevo Haggadah from right under the Nazis' noses. Together with his wife, he opened their home and provided safe shelter to a persecuted Jewish girl.
Helmut Kleinicke
The SS officer who was a cog in the machinery of war, but chose to sabotage it from within and save lives. The incredible story of a member of the Nazi Party who would eventually become a Righteous Among the Nations.
Wilm Hosenfeld
The German officer who began as an ardent admirer of the party but came to his senses when confronted with the horrors in Poland. His Wehrmacht uniform became a shield he used to save Jews, including the 'Pianist.'
Jan and Antonina Żabiński
The animal cages at the Warsaw Zoo became the boldest hiding place of World War II. Right under the Germans' noses, the zoo director and his wife turned it into a refuge for hundreds of Jews
Joop Westerweel
The Dutch educator who established a daring smuggling network that crossed borders all the way to neutral Spain. He regarded Jewish youth as his pupils and sacrificed his life for their free future.
Leopold Socha
The convicted criminal from Lviv who found his true calling deep in the city's sewers. This man from the margins of society risked everything to keep a group of Jews alive for months.
Magda and Andre Trocme
The pastor who turned an entire French village into a moral fortress and a refuge for countless people fleeing the Nazi oppressor. Under his leadership, the entire community rallied as one to ensure that not a single Jewish child was handed over.
Nicholas Winton
The man who could have stayed comfortably in London, but chose to act and save a whole world. On his own initiative, he put hundreds of children on trains in a rescue operation that became legendary.
Feng-Shan Ho
'The Chinese Schindler' who stood up to international pressure and issued rescue visas to anyone who asked in Vienna. Thanks to his signature, thousands of Jews found refuge in the Far East and escaped the Nazi inferno.
Carl Lutz
The meticulous Swiss diplomat who devised ingenious legal solutions and protective documents in the heart of burning Budapest. He led the largest civilian rescue operation and saved tens of thousands from death.
Karl Plagge
The officer raised in the traditions of the Prussian army who ran a labor camp that served as a haven. Instead of exploiting his prisoners, he did everything he could to protect them until the very end of the war.