Righteous Among The Nations

"Yediot Ahronot", a Hebrew language Israeli daily revealed the fascinating story about the saving of 1200 Jews from Europe during World War II. Thank you to the member of the Jaffa kehilla who sent us the article.

A special event was celebrated in Rome: a mass was celebrated in memory of two anti-Nazi diplomats, who listened to the voice of their conscience. The news item was published by ZENIT.

Irena Steinfeldt, Director of the Righteous among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, published a short article on Catholic clergy who saved Jews during the Shoah in the July 2009 edition of Yad Vashem Jerusalem Quarterly Magazine (vol. 54), 15. With her permission we reproduce the article here.

Martha, director of the Luckner Home, sent us the link to the documentation project that was carried out by Noa Eldar, a pupil in ninth grade, about the Righteous among the Nations who lived in the house that was built for them in Nahariyah.

In a new book, Guillaume Zeller documents the murder of Christian clergy in the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau.

We received a magnificent story of heroism from Yad VaShem regarding Father Borsotto who revealed to his parishioners that he was hiding Jews on Christmas eve.

Rome Reports published a short video clip about a Roman church in which many Jews found refuge during the Shoah.

Cardinal Elia Angelo Dalla Costa (1872-1961), Archbishop of Florence, has been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations on Monday, November 26, 2012. The Cardinal’s name will be engraved on the Wall of Honor in the Garden of the Righteous at Yad Vashem.

An Italian documentary series focuses on the Christians, Catholics and Protestants who resisted Hitler and the Nazis in Germany.

The “Rome Report” news agency published a short video clip about the “Assisi Network” and saving Jews in Italy during the Shoah.

Father Franceso Bertoglio, Rector of the Pontifical Lombard Seminary in 1943, hid hundreds of Jews from the Nazis in the seminary in Rome. He dressed some of them as seminarians in order to protect them.

Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her 60th anniversary on the throne of the United Kingdom but few know that her mother-in-law was a nun, recognized by Yad VaShem as a Righteous among the Nations and is buried in Jerusalem.

On September 15, 2011, the title of Righteous Among the Nations was bestowed on the late Father Ottavio Posta by Yad VaShem in memory of the 30 Jews he saved during the Shoah.

Father Stefan Taeubner SJ has sent us a brief biographical note he wrote of Bernhard Lichtenberg, a German Catholic priest, whose name is remembered in Yad Vashem.

In the coming months, Yad VaShem will hold the ceremony to recognize Father Ioannis Marangos, Greek Jesuit priest, as one of the Righteous Among the Nations because of the Jewish boy he hid in his religious community during the Shoah.

Catholic parish priest of Moransengo, near Monferatto in Italy, was proclaimed a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad VaShem on May 8, 2011, for having sheltered a Jewish family during the Shoah.

In a conference given on April 7, 2011 in Rome, Mateusz Szpytma from Cracow told of the heroic lives of Victoria and Joseph Ulma from Markowa, Poland, executed together with their seven children for having hidden eight Jews during the Shoah.

This is the story of the hiding of about one hundred Jewish children and women in a convent in Budapest during the days of the Hungarian "Arrow Cross Party" at the end of Nazi occupation, from October 15, 1944 until February 1945. The children remember Christmas in the convent.

One of the most moving testimonies given on screen in the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem is that of Rina Sha'ashua Hason, originally from Plovdiv in Bulgaria. At the center of her testimony is the Bishop of Plovdiv, Metropolitan Kiril.

Our brother Daniel, from the Jaffa kehilla, has drawn our attention to a nun from England, Mother Ricarda Beauchamp Hambrough, who played a vital role in saving 60 Jews in her convent in Rome during the Second World War.