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Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust

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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86000307
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh86000307#concept

Variants

Righteous of the nations (Judaism)

Broader Terms

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Related Terms

World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

Gerechter unter den Völkern
Justes des nations pendant la Shoah
Righteous Among the Nations Label from public data source Wikidata
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust

Broader Concepts from Other Schemes

Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Psychology

Sources

found: Work cat.: Blond, S. Ḥaside umot ha-ʻolam, 1983

found: 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.)

LC Classification

D804.65-D804.66

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Change Notes

1986-01-28: new
2009-10-19: revised

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