{"id":2088,"date":"2026-01-27T06:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.justesdebelgique.org\/the-righteous-among-the-nations\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:54:49","slug":"the-righteous-among-the-nations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lesjustes.be\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"The Righteous Among the Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Wall of the Righteous Among the Nations at the Yad Vashem Memorial, featuring names
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The Foundation “The Righteous of Belgium<\/strong>” aims to make known and recognize<\/strong> these ‘silent resisters’ through projects and events. Since January 2025, the Righteous of Belgium have been represented by 1,812 women and men<\/strong> who share the same honorary title with approximately 30,000 Righteous Among the Nations<\/strong>, from 51 different countries.<\/strong> <\/p>

It is clear that these figures represent only a very small portion of the actual number of rescuers, unfortunately still anonymous.<\/p>

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ALL risked their lives during World War II to save Jews,
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Yad Vashem,<\/strong> the International Institute for Holocaust Remembrance was created in 1953 and inaugurated in 1963 the department, unique in the world<\/strong> of ‘Righteous Among the Nations’<\/strong> so that their names would be inscribed for eternity in the stone of Jerusalem.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Yet the Righteous are the great forgotten<\/strong> of the history of European resistance during World War II. History books, plaques, commemorations or monuments that mention them are far too rare. <\/p>

Before being completely forgotten, especially among younger generations, it was high time that a website, created by a collective of historians and hidden children<\/strong>, be dedicated to the Righteous Among the Nations<\/strong> so that their memory may be<\/p>

shared, honored and anchored<\/strong> in our cities and countries.<\/p>

This site is intended for descendants of the Righteous Among the Nations<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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To the concept of Righteous of Belgium, our Foundation has chosen to include in its charter all those heroes who saved, outside our country, Jews from Belgium<\/strong>. The “Consul of Bordeaux” is one of these remarkable examples. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Our Foundation<\/strong>, in support of Yad Vashem’s impressive memorial work, is an outgrowth of the House of the Righteous of Charleroi<\/strong>, founded in 1986 by Professor Maurice Konopnicki and of the Year of the Righteous 2021-2022<\/strong>, which was a partnership with “The Hidden Child Asbl”<\/strong> and the Jewish Museum of Belgium<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Wall of the Righteous Among the Nations at the Yad Vashem Memorial, featuring names of Belgian Righteous – Mount of Remembrance – Jerusalem The Foundation “The Righteous of Belgium” aims to make known and recognize these ‘silent resisters’ through projects and events. Since January 2025, the Righteous of Belgium have been represented by 1,812 women […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2088","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesjustes.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesjustes.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesjustes.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesjustes.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesjustes.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesjustes.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"https:\/\/lesjustes.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2088\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesjustes.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}