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Definizione

Yad Vashem-The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority founded a commission in 1963 that officially recognizes the extraordinary heroic actions and deeds of non-Jews who risked their own lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Rescuers are conferred with the honorific status the "Righteous Among the Nations" (Hasidei umot haolam). (en-US)

Fonte

Laqueur, Walter. The Holocaust Encyclopedia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. 569-574

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• liberazione e vita dopo la liberazione