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Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Bio/Hist: Encyc. Judaica: v. 14, p. 183 (Righteous of the Nations (Heb. ḥasidei ummot ha-olam), term applied to those non-Jews who saved Jews from their Nazi persecutors by endangering their own lives. The State of Israel officially recognized the term Righteous of the Nations in Article 9 of the Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Law of 1953.)

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Nicholas Winton, The Power of Good, 2006

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Identifier: B230.03.0023.00020
Abstract

Video details the life and rescue mission of Nicholas Winton in 1938. Video includes additional information about some of the Jewish children he saved from Nazi violence. Includes a teachers' guide with extra archival materials and discussion questions.

Dates: 2006

Rosenstrasse Memorial, 2001

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Identifier: B333.02.01.00003
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Statue at the Rosenstrasse Memorial in Berlin, Germany to honor Germans, mostly women, who protested the deportation of their Jewish spouses and children during the Rosenstrasse Protest. Marie Loewenstein and Karin Steinberg joined the thousands of Germans for six days, even facing S.S. machine guns. Max Loewenstein was among those saved from transportation to East European concentration camps.

Dates: 2001

Rosenstrasse Memorial, 2001

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Identifier: B333.02.01.00004
Abstract

Henry Lowenstein standing beside a statue at the Rosenstrasse Memorial in Berlin, Germany to honor the Germans, mostly women, who protested the deportation of their Jewish spouses and children during the Rosenstrasse Protest. Marie Loewenstein and Karin Steinberg joined the thousands of Germans for six days, even facing S.S. machine guns. Max Loewenstein was among those saved from transportation to East European concentration camps.

Dates: 2001