List of Righteous Among the Nations by country
This is a partial list of some of the most prominent Righteous Among the Nations per country of origin, recognized by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem. These people risked their lives or their liberty and position to help Jews during the Holocaust; some suffered death as a result., Yad Vashem has recognized 27,362 Righteous Among the Nations from 51 countries.
By country and ethnic origin
These figures are not necessarily an indication of the actual number of Jews saved in each country, but reflect material on rescue operations made available to Yad Vashem as of January 1, 2019.| Country of origin | Awards | Notes |
| 6,992 | The largest contingent. It includes a wide variety of both individuals of different occupations and organized activists, including Irena Sendler ; Jan Karski ; Tadeusz Pankiewicz, Henryk Sławik ; Rudolf Weigl ; Stefan Korboński, Sister Bertranda ; Eryk Lipiński ; Franciszek and Magdalena Banasiewicz ; Irena Adamowicz ; Maria Kotarba ; the Podgórski sisters ; Józef and Wiktoria Ulma ; Leopold "Poldek" Socha ; writer and activist Zofia Kossak-Szczucka; and Karolina Juszczykowska. See Polish Righteous Among the Nations for additional names. | |
| 5,778 | On a population of 9 million in 1940 the figure represents the largest per capita number: 1 in 1,700 Dutch was awarded. Includes two persons originally from the Dutch East Indies and one person from Suriname. Includes Corrie ten Boom; Frits Philips who ran Philips during the German occupation; Gertruida Wijsmuller-Meier, who helped save about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and Austria just before the outbreak of the war ; she also managed the last transport to the UK on May 12, 1940 on the last ship leaving the Netherlands; Jan Zwartendijk, who as a Dutch consular representative in Kaunas, Lithuania, issued exit visas used by between 6,000 and to 10,000 Jewish refugees; includes the people who hid and helped Anne Frank and her family, like Miep Gies. Also includes the Salvation Army major Alida Bosshardt and the founder of VPRO Radio, theologian Nicolette Bruining. Remarkable is the relatively large number of Protestant ministers and their wives that participated and were awarded. Also includes the German lawyer Hans Calmeyer, who was recognized for his activities in the Netherlands during the war. Also includes Hendrika Gerritsen, a member of the Dutch Resistance who hid Siegfried Goldsteen and Judith Fransman at her home in 1943 and transported forged papers for people in hiding on behalf of the Amsterdam Resistance, and Caecilia Loots, a teacher and antifascist resistance member, known for saving Jewish children during the war. Marion van Binsbergen helped save approximately 150 Dutch Jews, most of them children, throughout the German occupation of the Netherlands. Tina Strobos, rescued over 100 Jews by hiding them in her house and providing them with forged paperwork to escape the country. Henk Zanoli returned his medal in 2014 after some of his family members were killed in an IDF airstrike. Also uniquely includes three organisations or collectives: the collective participants of the so-called "Amsterdam dock strike" ; the whole village of Nieuwlande that set up a quota-system under then alderman and later resistance fighter Johannes Post; and the resistance group Naamloze Vennootschap for saving Jewish children. In Denmark, France, and Norway, as well, a group of people was recognized as a single entity. | |
| 4,099 | In January 2007, French President Jacques Chirac and other dignitaries honored France's Righteous in a ceremony at the Panthéon, Paris. The Legion of Honour was awarded to 160 French Righteous for their efforts saving French Jews during World War II. Also includes Johan Hendrik Weidner, head of the Dutch-Paris organisation, which saved over 800 Jews and over 100 allied airmen. | |
| 2,634 | Daniil Tymchina, hieromonk of the Univ Lavra ; Klymentiy Sheptytsky, the Archimandrite of the Studite monks of Greek-Catholic Monastery ; Stepan Omelianiuk | |
| 1,751 | Includes Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians. Also includes Jeanne Daman, who helped rescue two thousand Jewish children from the Nazis by taking them to shelters. | |
| 904 | See Lithuanian Righteous Among the Nations, including Kazys Binkis and Ona Šimaitė | |
| 867 | Including Zoltán Lajos Bay ; Béla Király ; Géza Ottlik ; Endre Szervánszky ; Paulina and Ilona Kolonits ; Father Raile Jakab, S. J.; Margit Slachta ; Tibor Baranski ; Blessed Sára Salkaházi, S.S.S., Karig Sára | |
| 714 | Including Laura and Costantino Bulgari, Giovanni Palatucci, Lorenzo Perrone, Angelo Rotta, Francesco Repetto, Giorgio Perlasca, the cyclist Gino Bartali and the Blessed Odoardo Focherini | |
| 660 | Including Vanda Skuratovich and Mariya Yevdokimova and Dennis and Eva Vorobey | |
| 627 | See: List of German Righteous Among the Nations. Including Oskar Schindler, the businessman who saved more than 1,000 Jews by employing them in his factory; Captain Gustav Schröder who commanded the "Voyage of the Damned"; Wehrmacht officers Wilm Hosenfeld, Heinz Drossel, Karl Plagge, and Albert Battel; resistance fighter Hans von Dohnányi, and writer Armin T. Wegner. | |
| 602 | Including Pavel Peter Gojdič, Dr. Michal Majercik and his wife Anna | |
| 355 | Including Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens and Princess Alice of Battenberg | |
| 209 | Including Nikolay Kiselyov | |
| 139 | Including three members of the Milenković family | |
| 138 | Including Jānis Lipke | |
| 117 | See: List of Croatian Righteous Among the Nations | |
| 118 | Including Alena Hájková, Victor Kugler, Premysl Pitter and Antonín Kalina. | |
| 110 | Including Anton Schmid, one of three Wehrmacht soldiers executed for helping Jews. See List of Austrian Righteous Among the Nations | |
| 79 | Includes the Stoyanov family | |
| 75 | Includes Isuf and Niqi Panariti, parents of former Albanian Minister of Agriculture Edmond Panariti | |
| 67 | See List of Norwegian Righteous Among the Nations; the Norwegian Underground is listed as one group | |
| 66 | Includes Queen Helen of Romania, Traian Popovici and Prince Constantin Karadja, credited by Yad Vashem with saving more than 51,000 Jews | |
| 49 | Including Carl Lutz, who helped save tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews | |
| 49 | Includes Nurija Pozderac and his wife Devleta, Roza Sober-Dragoje and Zekira Besrević, Mustafa and Zejneba Hardaga, Izet and Bahrija Hardaga, Ahmed Sadik, Derviš Korkut | |
| 24 | Includes Taschdjian family | |
| 22 | As per their request, members of the Danish Underground who participated in the rescue of the Danish Jews are listed as one group. The fishermen who transported Danish Jews to Sweden in 1943, however, were ineligible because they had been paid. | |
| 22 | This list includes Major Frank Foley and Jane Haining. It excludes Sir Nicholas Winton, who was of Jewish parentage. | |
| 20 | Dimitar Peshev; Metropolitan Stefan of Sofia and Metropolitan Kiril of Plovdiv of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church | |
| 10 | Including :hr:Smiljan Franjo Čekada|Smiljan Franjo Čekada, Boris Altiparmak and Stojan Siljanovski | |
| 10 | Including Raoul Wallenberg, Per Anger, Ivan Danielsson, Lars Berg, Valdemar Langlet, Nina Langlet, Elow Kihlgren, Erik Perwe, Elisabeth Hesselblad and Erik Myrgren | |
| 15 | Including Zora Piculin | |
| 9 | Ángel Sanz Briz, , Eduardo Propper de Callejón, Concepción Faya Blásquez y Martín Aguirre y Otegui, Sebastián Romero Radigales and Joseph Jose & Victoria Maria Martínez | |
| 5 | Varian Fry, Martha and Waitstill Sharp, Lois Gunden, and Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds | |
| 3 | Uku and Eha Masing and Polina Lentsman | |
| 3 | Includes Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who issued 30,000 visas to people escaping the Nazis in France, and Carlos Sampaio Garrido, who sheltered about 1,000 Jews in safe-houses in Budapest and gave them Portuguese documents to leave the country | |
| 2 | Maria Edwards McClureSamuel del Campo | |
| 2 | Luis Martins de Souza Dantas and Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa | |
| 2 | Pan Jun Shun and Feng-Shan Ho | |
| 2 | Tole Madna, Mima Saina | |
| 2 | José Maria Barreto, Isabel Weill | |
| 1 | Mary Elmes. There is also a review underway on the case of Mgr. Hugh O'Flaherty, a Catholic priest and Vatican official who rescued thousands of Jews in Rome over the course of the war, and about whom a film was made. | |
| 1 | José Castellanos Contreras | |
| 1 | Gilberto Bosques Saldívar | |
| 1 | Victor Bodson | |
| 1 | Petar Zankovic | |
| 1 | Selâhattin Ülkümen | |
| 1 | Paul Nguyễn Công Anh | |
| Total | 27,362 | As of January 1, 2019 |