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Righteous Among the Nations

Israeli honorific for non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust
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Righteous Among the Nations is a title of honor . It was established in 1963 .

Key Facts

  • Country: Israel[3]
  • Instance of: award[4]
  • Commons category: Righteous Among the Nations[5]
  • Inception: 1963[6]
  • Official website: https://www.yadvashem.org[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Righteous Among the Nations[8]
  • Conferred by: Yad Vashem[9]
  • Quantity: 28,486[10], 28,707[11]
  • Facet of: rescue of Jews during the Holocaust[12]
  • Topic has template: תבנית:חסיד אומות העולם[13], Template:Righteous Among the Nations[14]
  • Main Wikidata property: P1979[15]
  • Native label: חסיד אומות העולם[16]
  • Female form of label: Gerechte unter den Völkern[17], justulino inter la popoloj[18], חסידת אומות העולם[19], Dreaptă între popoare[20], Праведніца народаў сьвету[21], праведніца народаў свету[22]
  • Male form of label: Gerechter unter den Völkern[23], Drept între popoare[24], Праведнік народаў сьвету[25]
  • Related category: Category:Polish Righteous Among the Nations[26], Category:Righteous Among the Nations Alphabetical[27], Category:Dutch Righteous Among the Nations[28], Category:Salvadoran Righteous Among the Nations[29], Category:Russian Righteous Among the Nations[30], Category:Swiss Righteous Among the Nations[31], Category:Danish Righteous Among the Nations[32], Category:British Righteous Among the Nations[33], Category:French Righteous Among the Nations[34], Category:Greek Righteous Among the Nations[35], Category:Italian Righteous Among the Nations[36], Category:Egyptian Righteous Among the Nations[37], Category:Latvian Righteous Among the Nations[38], Category:Austrian Righteous Among the Nations[39]

Why It Matters

Righteous Among the Nations has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] It is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]

Related Entities

Aristides de Sousa Mendes award Chiune Sugihara Corrie ten Boom Czesław Miłosz Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of the Belgians Fritz Strassmann Gino Bartali Giorgio Perlasca Helen of Greece and Denmark Irena Sendler Israel Jacques Ellul Jan Karski Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz Kazys Grinius Miep Gies Milena Jesenská Oskar Schindler Princess Alice of Battenberg Raoul Wallenberg Wilm Hosenfeld Władysław Bartoszewski Yad Vashem

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . yadvashem.org. Retrieved . yadvashem.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [40] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [41] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · M.L.Bot · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Female form of label → {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Gerechte unter den Völkern'}, {'lang': 'eo', 'text': 'justulino inter la popoloj'}, {'lang': 'he', 'text': 'חסידת אומות העולם'} +3
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  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0347620-Spravedlivy-mezi-narody-oceneni
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  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → —
    Encyclopædia universalis id → justes-parmi-les-nations
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007536521205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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