abstract:Righteous Among the Nations (, khassidey umot ha-olam "righteous (plural) of the world's nations") is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.
Indeed, the Polish constitute the largest group of theRighteousAmongtheNations, the honorary title granted to all non-Jews who saved Jewish lives by Yad Vashem, the organisation charged with commemorating the Holocaust.