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More often than not rescuers and rescued came from completely different backgrounds and had very little in common with each other. However the rescuers decision to accept full responsibility for the survival of Jewish outcasts as well as the total dependence of the rescued Jews on their benefactor combined with the stressful circumstances of living clandestinely, created strong bonds between the Righteous Among the Nations and the persons they saved. The memory of rescue – the noblest expression of sacrifice and solidarity as well as the terrible suffering it often entailed – continues to affect the families of both rescuers and rescued.
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Rescuer, Franciszka Sasin from Poland, with rescued Adam Kapitanczyk
Rescuer, Varvara Kosokovskaya, and Rescued Zinaida Elkind (Krasner), 1968, Belarus
Rescuer, Genowefa Majcher from Poland, with rescued Michael Rozenshein, summer of 1947
The Righteous Among the Nations Maria Helena Friedlander (Bruhn) with her husband Henry Friedlander, whom she'll rescue during the war, at their house at Wassenaar, The Netherlands
Michael Stolowicki with Gertruda Babilińska
On the top, from left to right – rescued Chaim Izraelit, rescuer Anna Matusiewich, rescuer Jan Matusiewich; below – rescuer Jadwiga Matusiewich and rescued Yakov Izraelit, August 1945, Latvia
From right to left: rescuer Maria Krivokobylskaya, rescued Naum Zatulovskiy and rescuer Melanya Ivinskaya. 1946,Ukraine
Rescuer, Viktorija Krulickiene, and rescued Yocheved Yacha Siniuk (Burko), 1942, Lithuania
Rescuer, Aleksandra Karnauchova (right), with the rescued Dora Morskaya, 1993
Rescuer, Praskovia Kiriliuk (right), with rescued Grigory Dykler, 1955
From left to right: Rescuer Zofia Niewiedzka, the rescued Ester Starzewska, Zofia's daughter Zofia and Zofia's sister, 1943
Rescuers Hendrik & Geertje Torsius with the Schelvis family they hid in their farm in Nijkerk, Netherlands, 1945
Rescuers Georg Celmraugs, his wife Anna and rescued Marina Hoff, 1950, Riga
Rescuer, Helene Holzmann, with her daughter and rescued Fruma Vitkin
Rescuer, Antonia Muron (France), with rescued Daniel and Muriel Gameroff, 1947
Rescued Dan Dagan (Haberkorn) sitting on the sheep, with the rescuers' children, in front of the rescuers Brandt family farm, 1944
Rescuer, Martin Uher (Slovakia) with rescued Elizabet Fleischer, his wife
Rescuer, Cornelia Lasthuijzen (The Netherlands), rescued Gerard Sanders with his father, 1944
Rescuer, Marie Rensenbrink, with rescued Sarah Levin during the war
Rescuers, The Arnoldy family (Belgium) with their children and rescued Maurice Sztum, 1943
Rescuer Johanna Kuiper (The Netherlands) with the rescued Ennie Kater, 1948
Rescuer Tatyana Minkovskaya (Ukraine) and rescued Nelli Zaslavskaya