LC control no. | sh 86000307 |
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LC classification | D804.65 D804.66 |
Topical heading | Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust |
Variant(s) | Righteous of the nations (Judaism) |
See also | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue |
Found in | Work cat.: Blond, S. Ḥaside umot ha-ʻolam, 1983 Encyc. Judaica: v. 14, p. 183 (Righteous of the Nations (Heb. ḥasidei ummot ha-olam), term applied to those non-Jews who saved Jews from their Nazi persecutors by endangering their own lives. The State of Israel officially recognized the term Righteous of the Nations in Article 9 of the Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Law of 1953.) |