The Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations is apart of the Yad Vashem or Israel's official memorial to the victim's of the Holocaust. "the Garden of the Righteous is meant to honor those non-Jews who during the Holocaust risked their lives to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis."
Notable individuals honored as Righteous Among the Nations: Irena Adamowicz, Gino Bartali, Archbishop Damaskinos, María Edwards, Odoardo Focherini, Francis Foley, Marianne GolzJane Haining, Alice and Helen of Greece and Denmark, Feng-Shan Ho, Wilm Hosenfeld, Constantin Karadja, Jan Karsk, iDerviš Korkut, Valdemar Langlet, Carl Lutz, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Czesław Miłosz, Tadeusz Pankiewicz, Giorgio Perlasca, Nurija Pozderac, Marion Pritchard, Ángel Sanz Briz, Oskar Schindler, Anton Schmid, Irena Sendler, Klymentiy Sheptytsky, Ona Šimaitė, Henryk Sławik, Tina Strobos, Chiune Sugihara, Casper ten Boom, Corrie ten Boom, Johan van Hulst, Raimondo Viale, Raoul Wallenberg, Johan Hendrik Weidner, Rudolf Weigl, Jan Zwartendijk
Museums - History, Memorials
Links: www.yadvashem.org
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