List of people who helped Jews during the Holocaust: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

This is a list of people who helped victims to escape from the Nazi Holocaust during World War II.

Leaders

• Henryk Slawik 5 000-10 000 people saved
• Raoul Wallenberg 100 000 people saved
• Jan Karski envoy and eye-witness of the Holocaust
• Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
• Irena Sendlerowa - 2 000 children
• Oskar Schindler - German businessman whose efforts to save his Jewish workers were retold in the film Schindler's List
• Chiune Sugihara Japanese consul to Lithuania, 2,140 (mostly Polish) Jews were saved by passports from the Japanese diplomat in 1940.
• Andre Trocme and Magda Trocme, led Le Chambon-sur-Lignon village movement that saved 3,000-5,000 Jews
• Bernhard Lichtenberg Parson at Berlin's Cathedral. Sent to Dachau because he prayed for Jews at Evening Prayer.
• Giorgio Perlasca Italian false Spanish consul in Hungary. Saved more than 5.000 Jews in Budapest
• Aristides Sousa Mendes - Portuguese diplomat in Bordeaux, who signed about 30,000 visas to help Jews and persecuted minorities to escape the Nazis and the Holocaust
• Folke Bernadotte - Swedish diplomat, who negotiated the release of 27000 people (a significant amount of which were Jews) to hospitals in Sweden

• Dorota and Antoni Szylar - 7 members of Weltz family
• Jan and Weronika Przybylak - Jakub Einhorn
• Michal Bar - Jakub Lorbenfeld
• Stanislaw Kielar - 2 girls from Reisenbach family
• Julia and Józef Bar - 5 members of Reisenbach family
• Wiktoria and Józef Ulm, their 6 children and unborn baby - shot dead by Germans- Szall and Goldman families
• Suzanne Spaak, wealthy socialite who saved Jewish children in France
• Johan Hendrik Weidner, escape network rescued 800 Jews
• Gabrielle Weidner, escape network rescued 800 Jews

• Cisie
• Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, in the Haute-Loire département in France
• Markowa

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