The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations – Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust

The concept of “Righteous Among the Nations” is based on a Rabbinic precept whereby one who saves one life is considered to have saved an entire world. How did this idea manifest itself during the Holocaust? There were people who adopted Jewish children and passed them off as nieces or nephews who had been recently orphaned. Others hid strangers in attics and shared with them their own meager supply of food, or else supplied former workmates with forged identity papers.