Villages Helping Jews
- Yaruga, Ukraine
- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, in the Haute-Loire département in France, which saved up to 5,000 Jews.
- Markowa, Poland, where 17 Jews survived the war. Many families hid their Jewish neighbours there and some paid the ultimate price.
- Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, their 6 children and unborn baby were shot dead by the Germans for hiding the Szall and Goldman families.
- Dorota and Antoni Szylar - hid seven members of Weltz family.
- Julia and Józef Bar - hid five members of Reisenbach family.
- Michal Bar - hid Jakub Lorbenfeld.
- Jan and Weronika Przybylak - hid Jakub Einhorn.
- Tršice, Czech Republic, many people from this village helped hide a Jewish family, six of them were given the honorific of Righteous among the Nations.
- Nieuwlande, The Netherlands - during the war this small village contained 117 inhabitants. They unanimously decided in 1942 and 1943 that every household would give shelter to one Jewish household or individual during the war, thus making it impossible that anyone in the small village would betray their neighbours. Dozens of Jews were thus saved. All inhabitants have been honored by Yad Vashem.
- Moissac, France There was a Jewish boarding home and orphanage in this town. When the mayor was told that the Nazis were coming the older students would go camping for several days, the younger students were boarded with families in the area and told to treat as members of their immediate family and the oldest students hid in the house. When it became too dangerous for the students to stay there any longer they made sure that every student had a safe place to go to. If the students again had to move the counsellors from the boarding house arranged for a new place and even escorted them to the new housing.
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