These people deserve to be more famous.
The Post Quiz: Counting the Righteous
Ten-second question: What's cooler than becoming a Nobel Peace Laureate?
You probably didn't think of it, but we think being listed as a Righteous Person by Yad Vashem definitely qualifies.
These people were Righteous Among the Nations. Match them with what they did.
| Person | Accomplishment |
- Giorgio Perlasca
- Miep Gies
- Traian Popovici
- Knud Marstrand Christiansen
- Oskar Schindler
- Stanislaw and Regina Swida
- Ashkhen Agopyan
- Piet Adrian Meerburg
- Gennady Safonov
- Erzsebet Fajo
| - Ran a factory that saved people.
- Took her Hungarian nanny job so seriously that she saved the entire family.
- Organised students to hide Jewish children in the Netherlands. (Some posed as 'unwed mothers'.)
- Rowed people to safety in his Olympic boat.
- Saved her Jewish neighbours in an Odessa apartment house.
- Pretended their foster child was Muslim in occupied Warsaw.
- Saved people in Budapest by pretending to be the Spanish ambassador.
- Hid refugees in his Russian partisan camp near Vilnius.
- Hid Anne Frank in an attic.
- Refused to build a ghetto in Romania, saved 20,000.
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Don't know all the stories? Guess the names, then click the picture for answers.
Post Quiz and Oddities ArchiveDmitri Gheorgheni
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