List of the Righteous Among the Nations from the United Kingdom

Statue commemorating Frank Foley in Highbridge, England

The Righteous Among the Nations List includes Brits honored as Righteous Among the Nations by Israel's Yad Vashem Memorial for saving Jews during the Nazi era .

Since 1953, the State of Israel has honored people as Righteous Among the Nations who took great personal risks between 1933 and 1945 and put their lives in danger in order to protect Jews threatened with deportation to labor or extermination camps . In Yad Vashem, a plaque is placed for each person in the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations , and a tree was planted for each of the early honored people in the Alley of the Righteous Among the Nations , but this has become rare due to lack of space. As of January 1, 2019, the righteous totaled 27,362, including 22 British.

Due to the large number of people, the list is divided according to nationalities. For other nations, see List of the Righteous Among the Nations .

The list is arranged alphabetically by last name. The year of the honor is given after the name.

list

• Alice von Battenberg , 1993 (she dismissed a Gestapo investigation into her property in which she hid two persecuted people.)
• Albert Bedane , 2000
• Jack Buckley , 2011
• Mary Louise and Ida Cook , 1964

The sisters smuggled valuables into England, with the help of which German Jews could prove securities that were necessary to meet the British immigration requirements. 29 people managed to escape.

• Charles Coward , 1965
• Alan Edwards , 1988
• Willy Fisher , 2011
• Frank Foley , 1999

Foley worked in the passport department of the British Embassy in Berlin. He generously interpreted visa regulations in favor of refugees and also distributed forged papers so that more than 10,000 Jews could escape the Holocaust.

• Jane Haining , 1997
• Bert Hambling , 2011
• George Hammond , 1988
• Bill Keeble , 2011
• Roger Letchford , 1989
• Thomas Noble , 1988
• June Ravenhall , 2007
• Bill Scruton , 2011
• Sofka Skipwith , 1998
• Madeleine Steinberg (White), 2013
• Elsie Maude Tilney , 2013
• Sister Agnes Walsh (real name: Clare Walsh), 1990
• Dorothea Weber (Le Brocq), 2016
• Stanley Wells , 1988

Web links

• Righteous Among the Nations on the side of the Yad Vashem Memorial, u. a. with a list of the British (PDF, 109 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “Righteous Among the Nations” - by country and ethnic origin January 1, 2019. Retrieved January 30, 2020 . 
2. ↑ A Big Little Man - Proving a Gentile was Righteous ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved May 5, 2012