Rescue by Country

 

This page is a summary of rescue activities by country.  This includes information about all rescue within the country.  It includes rescue by individuals, organizations and networks.  The individuals are both government officials and private citizens.  This list also includes foreign service officials and diplomats who rescued Jews, both within the country and working at their consulates and embassies in other countries.  We also list, as a separate category, rescue by churches and church organizations.  (This includes laypeople and cooperating non-religious organizations.)

For a list of diplomats who rescued Jews by country, click here.

For a list of churches and clergy who rescued Jews, organized alphabetically and by country, click here.

 

Austria 

Belgium

China

Czechoslovakia

Denmark

Finland 

France

Germany 

Greece

Hungary

Italy

Lithuania

Mexico

Netherlands

Norway

Poland - Updated

Portugal

Red Cross

Romania

Slovakia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

United States of America

Vatican