Righteous Among The Nations By Country and Ethnic Origin As of January 1, 2012
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. See List of Righteous among the Nations by country for names of individuals.
| Country of origin | Awards | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Poland | 6,339 | Including Irena Sendler - Polish social worker who served in the Polish Underground and the Żegota resistance organization in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II. She saved 2,500 Jewish children.
Leopold "Poldek" Socha, a sewer inspector, hid a group of Jews in a remote corner of the Lvov sewers. He began doing this for money but as the Nazi atrocities increased and he became more and more attached to his charges, the money became unimportant. His incredible story is told in the film In Darkness, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of 2012. In the film, Socha is played by the renowned Polish stage actor Robert Wieckiewicz. In German-occupied Poland, all household members were punished by death if a Jew was found concealed in their home or property. Death was a punishment for providing any aid to a Jew, including giving bread or water to passing Jews. This was the most severe law enforced by the German Nazis in occupied Europe. See Polish Righteous among the Nations |
| Netherlands | 5,204 | Includes two persons originally from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) residing in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, people hiding Jews would usually be punished either by being sent to concentration camps or by being shot (usually after a "trial"). Includes Corrie ten Boom. |
| France | 3,513 | In January 2007, French President Jacques Chirac and other dignitaries honored France's Righteous among the Nations in a ceremony at the Panthéon, Paris. The Legion of Honor was awarded to 160 French Righteous among the Nations for their efforts saving French Jews during World War II. |
| Ukraine | 2,402 | Klymentiy Sheptytsky, the Archimandrite of the Studite monks of Greek-Catholic Monastery in 1995, Daniil Tymchina, hieromonk of the Univ Lavra in 2008, Stepan Omelianiuk in 1982. |
| Belgium | 1,612 | Including Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians, née Duchess in Bavaria. |
| Lithuania | 831 | See Lithuanian Righteous among the Nations, Kazys Binkis, Ona Šimaitė. |
| Hungary | 791 | Zoltan Bay, physicist; father of radar-astronomy, Béla Király, Géza Ottlik author, Endre Szervánszky composer. In 2007: Paulina Kolonits and her daughters Ilona Kolonits, documentary film director (aged 17 she saved over 40 Jewish children from the Budapest ghetto), Margit Vámos and Paola Ördög (amongst the people they saved was the young Erzsébet Garai, later Director of the Hungarian Film Institute). |
| Belarus | 569 | |
| Slovakia | 525 | |
| Italy | 524 | Including Laura and Constantino Bulgari, Lorenzo Perrone, Francesco Repetto and Giorgio Perlasca |
| Germany | 510 | Including Oskar Schindler, the businessman who saved over a thousand Jews by employing them in his factory; and Hans and Sophie Scholl, sibling members of the White Rose resistance movement; Captain Gustav Schröder who commanded the "Voyage of the Damned"; German army officers Wilm Hosenfeld and Heinz Drossel; German army Major Karl Plagge; resistance fighter Hans von Dohnanyi, and writer Armin Wegner. |
| Greece | 313 | Including Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens and Princess Alice of Battenberg. |
| Russia | 179 | |
| Latvia | 132 | Including Jānis Lipke. |
| Serbia | 131 | Including Aleksandar Petrović, Vidosava Petrović Milenković, Very Rev. Svetozar Milenković. |
| Czech Republic | 118 | Victor Kugler one of the Anne Frank helpers. |
| Croatia | 107 | |
| Austria | 90 | Irene Harand, Florian Tschögl |
| Moldova | 79 | |
| Albania | 69 | Atif & Ganimet Toptani |
| Romania | 60 | Including Prince Constantin Karadja, credited by Yad Vashem with saving over 51,000 Jews. |
| Norway | 47 | See Norwegian Righteous among the Nations. The Norwegian Underground is listed as one group. |
| Switzerland | 45 | Includes Carl Lutz, who helped save tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews. |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 40 | |
| Denmark | 22 | As per their request, members of the Danish Underground who participated in the rescue of the Danish Jews are listed as one group. |
| Armenia | 21 | |
| Bulgaria | 20 | Dimitar Peshev; Sofia Metropolitan Stefan and Plovdiv Metropolitan Kiril of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church |
| United Kingdom | 19 | This list includes Major Frank Foley, but excludes Sir Nicholas Winton, as he is of Jewish parentage |
| Sweden | 10 | Including Raoul Wallenberg, Per Anger and Valdemar Langlet |
| Macedonia | 10 | Including Smiljan Cekada, Boris Altiparmak and Stojan Siljanovski |
| Slovenia | 6 | |
| Spain | 6 | Angel Sanz Briz, José and Carmen Santaella, and Eduardo Propper de Callejón. |
| Turkey | 3 | Selâhattin Ülkümen, Necdet Kent, and Namık Kemal Yolga |
| United States | 3 | Varian Fry, Martha Sharp, and Waitstill Sharp |
| Estonia | 3 | Uku Masing and Eha Masing, Polina Lentsman |
| Republic of China (Taiwan) | 2 | Pan Jun Shun and Feng-Shan Ho (provided approximately 2000 visas to Jews in needed during his tenure as ambassador of ROC in Austria in 1938). |
| Brazil | 2 | Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas and Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa. |
| Portugal | 2 | Aristides de Sousa Mendes, issued 30,000 visas to people escaping the Nazis. Carlos Sampaio Garrido, sheltered about 1,000 Jews in safe-houses in Budapest and gave them Portuguese documents to leave the country. |
| Mexico | 1 | Gilberto Bosques Saldívar (former Consul in Nazi-occupied France) |
| Chile | 1 | María Edwards |
| El Salvador | 1 | José Castellanos Contreras (provided Salvadoran citizenship papers to approximately 13,000 Central European Jews). |
| Japan | 1 | Chiune Sugihara (provided approximately 3,400 transit visas to Jews in need). |
| Ireland | 1 | Hugh O'Flaherty |
| Georgia | 1 | Sergei Metreveli |
| Luxembourg | 1 | Victor Bodson, (former Justice Minister and Chairman of the Luxembourg House of Representatives; saved approximately 100 Jews) |
| Montenegro | 1 | Petar Zankovic |
| Vietnam | 1 | Paul Nguyen Cong Anh |
| Total | 24,358 | As of 2012 |
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