"Righteous Among the Nations": Statistical Breakdown by Country
(2020)
As of January 1, 2021, the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Israel has recognized 27,921 Righteous Among the Nations.
These non-Jewish men and women hailed from 51 different countries and cooperated to save thousands of Jews from the Nazi horrors.
These figures are the cases made available to Yad Vashem and do not necessarily represent the actual number of rescuers, which is likely greater.
| Country | Number of | Country | Number of | |
| Albania | 75 | Italy | 744 | |
| Armenia | 24 | Japan | 1 | |
| Austria | 113 | Latvia | 138 | |
| Belarus | 676 | Lithuania | 918 | |
| Belgium | 1,774 | Luxembourg | 1 | |
| Bosnia | 49 | Macedonia | 10 | |
| Brazil | 2 | Moldova | 79 | |
| Bulgaria | 20 | Montenegro | 1 | |
| Chile | 2 | Netherlands | 5,910 | |
| China | 2 | Norway | 67 | |
| Croatia | 122 | Peru | 2 | |
| Cuba | 1 | Poland | 7,177 | |
| Czech Republic | 119 | Portugal | 3 | |
| Denmark | 22 | Romania | 66 | |
| Ecuador | 1 | Russia | 215 | |
| Egypt | 1 | Serbia | 139 | |
| El Salvador | 1 | Slovakia | 621 | |
| Estonia | 3 | Slovenia | 15 | |
| France | 4,150 | Spain | 9 | |
| Georgia | 1 | Sweden | 10 | |
| Germany | 641 | Switzerland | 49 | |
| Great Britiain | 22 | Turkey | 1 | |
| Greece | 362 | Ukraine | 2,673 | |
| Hungary | 876 | USA | 5 | |
| Indonesia | 3 | Vietnam | 1 | |
| Ireland | 1 |
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| TOTAL: 27,921 | ||||
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