List of people who resisted the Holocaust

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 up to 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
Sousa Mendes, diplomat who freely issued visas to Jews fleeing to Portugal.


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