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In this lesson you learn about non-Jewish resistance and rescue efforts during the Holocaust. Additional information is available on many of the topics you study in this lesson by clicking on the links below:
   Righteous Among the Nations
   Anne Frank (encyclopedia entry)
   Anne Frank (photograph)
   Rescue of Danish Jewry in 1943
   Varian Fry (encyclopedia entry)
   Varian Fry (Righteous Among the Nations entry)
   Raoul Wallenberg (encyclopedia entry)
   Raoul Wallenberg (Righteous Among the Nations entry)
   Raoul Wallenberg (photograph)
   Giovanni Palatucci
   Oskar Schindler (Righteous Among the Nations entry)
   Oskar Schindler (photograph)
   Sempo Sugihara (encyclopedia entry)
   Sempo Sugihara (photograph)
   Jews Waiting in Line to Obtain Visas in Front of the Japanese Consulate in Lithuania (photograph)
   Aristides de Sousa Mendes
   Rescue efforts in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France

Jan Karski
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France (Vichy)

Righteous Among the Nations
Encyclopedia Encyclopedia

Denmark

Slovak National Uprising 
Joop Westerweel Warsaw Polish Uprising 
Miep Groenendijk and Dot Zegota
Partisans  
Photographs Photographs

A Table with a Removable Top in Which Fernando Pchipichi Was Hidden by a Non-Jew in Rome
Fishing Boat Used by Gilbert to Smuggle Jews Off the Coast of Denmark
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Garden of the Avenue of the Righteous
The Righteous Gentiles Medallion
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Tree Planting by Righteous Gentiles Maria Kann and Wladislava Bartushevik
 

Artifacts Artifacts

Bicycle Used by the Sister Mary Rose Ginst to Carry Messages to Different Monasteries That Hid Jewish Children

Online Exhibitions Online Exhibitions

Visas for Life - Diplomats Who Rescued
New Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem: Gallery of Rescue

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