This is a list of people who helped victims to escape from the Nazi Holocaust during World War II.

Leaders

• Folke Bernadotte - Swedish diplomat, who negotiated the release of 27,000 people (a significant number of which were Jews) to hospitals in Sweden
• Paul Grueninger - Swiss comander of police who provided falsely dated papers to over 3,000 refugees so they could escape Austria following the Anschluss.
• Jan Karski - Polish emissary of Armia Krajowa to Western Allies and eye-witness of the Holocaust.
• Zofia Kossak-Szczucka - Polish founder of Zegota
• Oskar Schindler - German businessman whose efforts to save his Jewish workers were retold in the film Schindler's List
• Bernhard Lichtenberg - German Catholic priest at Berlin's Cathedral. Sent to Dachau because he prayed for Jews at Evening Prayer.
• Aristides Sousa Mendes - Portuguese diplomat in Bordeaux, who signed about 30,000 visas to help Jews and persecuted minorities to escape the Nazis and the Holocaust
• Giovanni Palatucci - Italian police official who saved several thousand
• Giorgio Perlasca - Italian false Spanish consul in Hungary. Saved more than 5,000 Jews in Budapest.
• Traian Popovici - Romanian mayor of Cernăuţi (Chernivtsi): saved 20,000 Jews of Bukovina.
• Irena Sendlerowa - Polish head of Zegota children's department: saved 2,500 Jewish children.
• Henryk Slawik - Polish diplomat, saved 5,000-10,000 people in Budapest, Hungary.
• Chiune Sugihara - Japanese consul to Lithuania, 2,140 (mostly Polish) Jews were saved by passports from the Japanese diplomat in 1940.
• Andre Trocme and Magda Trocme - A French pastor and his wife who led the Le Chambon-sur-Lignon village movement that saved 3,000-5,000 Jews.
• Raoul Wallenberg - Swedish diplomat, saved up to 100,000 Jews.
• Frank Foley - British MI6 agent undercover as a passport officer in Berlin, saved around 10,000 people by issuing forged passports to Britain and Palestine (in British hands at the time).
• Sir Nicholas Winton - British stockbroker who organised the kindertransport which saved mainly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia and Austria after Kristallnacht.

• Major Karl Plagge Major in the German Army who issued work permits in order to save almost 1,000 Jews, see The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews, by Michael Good

Individual heroes

• Dorota and Antoni Szylar - 7 members of Weltz family
• Jan and Weronika Przybylak - Jakub Einhorn
• Michal Bar - Jakub Lorbenfeld
• Stanislaw Kielar - 2 girls from Reisenbach family
• Julia and Józef Bar - 5 members of Reisenbach family
• Wiktoria and Józef Ulm, their 6 children and unborn baby - shot dead by Germans- Szall and Goldman families
• Corrie ten Boom, rescued many Jews in Holland - was sent to Ravensbrück
• Suzanne Spaak, wealthy socialite who saved Jewish children in France
• Johan Hendrik Weidner, escape network rescued 800 Jews
• Gabrielle Weidner, escape network rescued 800 Jews
• Aristides Sousa Mendes, diplomat who freely issued visas to Jews fleeing to Portugal
• Józef and Stefania Macugowscy , hid six members of the Radza family, and several others, in Nowy Korczyn, Poland.
• Algot Niska Finnish gentleman rogue and alcohol smuggler; smuggled Jews via the Baltics.

Villages helping Jews

• Cisie
• Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, in the Haute-Loire département in France
• Markowa

See also

• Righteous Among the Nations
• Zegota Council to Aid Jews in occupied Poland

External links

• Rescuers during the Holocaust
• Non-Jewish Holocaust Victims: Stories and List
• Saving Jews: Polish Righteous