Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations

The German-language Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations is part of the overall project of the multi-volume Lexicon of the Righteous at Yad Vashem .

It has been published since 2005 by Israel Gutman with the collaboration of Sara Bender, or in the successor of Daniel Fraenkel and Jakob Borut in Wallstein-Verlag . Not only well-known personalities like Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg were silent helpers (also known as the savior of the Jews) . The majority of the women and men who remained unknown after the war risked their lives to save Jews, be they neighbors or hitherto unknown people, by providing accommodation or helping them flee from the Nazi persecution of Jews in Europe . The lexicon also provides compact information on the thanks process of the State of Israel by the Righteous Commission in Jerusalem for Germany and Austria of all processes completed up to 2005. This makes research on individuals much easier. It contains an afterword by Federal President Horst Köhler .

output

• The encyclopedia of the righteous among the nations in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Israel Gutman (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of the Righteous among the Nations. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 2004ff (12 volumes).
• Europe and other countries. 1. Austria, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United States. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 2007, ISBN 978-0-9764425-8-5 .
• Daniel Fraenkel, Jakob Borut (Ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations. Germans and Austrians . Preface by Avner Shalev. Afterword by Horst Köhler . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-900-7 .

See also

• Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
• List of the Righteous Among the Nations

literature

English-language literature:

• Eva Fogelman : Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. Anchor Books, New York 1994. German version: We weren't heroes. Lifesaver in the face of the Holocaust; Motifs, stories, backgrounds. dtv, 1998. ISBN 978-3-423-30641-6 .
• Martin Gilbert : The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust. Doubleday, London 2002.
• Samuel Oliner: The Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe. Free Press, New York 1988.
• Mordecai Paldiel : The Path of the Righteous: Gentile Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. Ktav, Hoboken, NJ 1993.
• Nechama Tec: When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland. Oxford University Press, New York 1986.
• Theo Tschuy: Dangerous Diplomacy, The Story of Carl Lutz, Rescuer of 62,000 Hungarian Jews. WB Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich. 2000. (Article about Carl Lutz )

Web links

• Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (at yadvashem.org, online- / lexicon)
• The Holocaust Encyclopedia , an online encyclopedia, on the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM, Washington DC; Eng.)