Avenue of the Righteous at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel.
At Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, Israel, 25,271 people are memorialized as Righteous Among the Nations, non-Jews from 45 countries who saved Jews during the Holocaust.
There has been no similar effort to recognize people who risked their lives to rescue innocent people targeted for extermination since the Holocaust, during the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Guatemala, East Timor; in today’s mass killings in Myanmar, Congo, Central African Republic, Darfur; and many other places.
World Without Genocide is initiating a program called A World of Upstanders. We seek nominations of people who have been ‘upstanders’ in any of these past or current conflicts. The award recipient will be honored at our annual gala.
The research and the stories of those who are selected will be archived online for the purposes of research, education, and commemoration. Learn about our previous recipients: