Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86000307
- info:lc/authorities/sh86000307
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh86000307#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Righteous of the nations (Judaism)
Broader Terms
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Related Terms
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb124189373
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
Change Notes
- 1986-01-28: new
- 2009-10-19: revised

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