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Righteous Among the Nations

A bust of Chiune Sugihara is seen near the Sugihara Chiune Memorial Hall in Yaotsu, Japan, his purported hometown. (Photo/JTA-Jordyn Haime)
Posted inNews

Researchers say Japan has exaggerated the story of Chiune Sugihara, the ‘Japanese Schindler’

by Jordyn Haime July 19, 2023July 19, 2023

YAOTSU, Japan (JTA) — Three years before the Olympics began in 2021, Tokyo was already developing the national image it would display as the world looked on. The Tokyo Metropolitan […]

Patients lay in beds in the “Syndrome K” unit at Fatebenefratelli Hospital. (Photo/JTA-“Syndrome K”-Freestyle Digital Media)
Posted inCulture

To save Jews and keep the Nazis away, these doctors invented a fake infectious disease

by Stephen Silver and JTA August 12, 2022August 12, 2022
From left: Lidia S., Olympiada D., Aleksandra B. and Aleksander S. are among 15 Ukrainians named "Righteous Among the Nations" who helped save Jews during the Holocaust who were still living in Ukraine when Russia invaded. (Photo/NY Jewish Week-Courtesy Jewish Foundation for the Righteous)
Posted inWorld

Inside the mission to aid Ukraine’s 15 remaining ‘Righteous Gentiles’

by Stewart Ain and Jewish Week May 11, 2022
Chinese diplomat Feng Shan Ho, seen here in China in 1947, is one of many foreign diplomats who helped Jews escape the Holocaust.
Posted inBay Area

Righteous diplomats of the Holocaust honored in San Jose exhibit

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 31, 2022March 31, 2022
Dutch Reformed Church pastor Leendert Overduin is recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
Posted inUncategorized

Palo Alto student essay contest honors Leendert Overduin, Dutch pastor who saved Jews

Larry Sokoloff by Larry Sokoloff March 30, 2022March 30, 2022
Chinese diplomat Feng Shan Ho, seen here in China in 1947, is one of many foreign diplomats who helped Jews escape the Holocaust.
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

To the diplomats who risked their lives to save Jews, we say thank you

Shlomi Kofman by Shlomi Kofman January 22, 2021
(From left) Andrea Trippen, Marlene Straus and Jacob Trippen in front of the Jewish preschool, Jewish senior housing and JCC in Cologne, Germany
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Reunited at last — meeting the German family that saved mine

Rabbi Andrew Straus by Rabbi Andrew Straus June 10, 2019June 10, 2019

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