What are the basic criteria for awarding the title of Righteous?
The basic conditions for granting the title are: • Active involvement of the rescuer in saving one or several Jews from the threat of death or deportation to death camps • Risk to the rescuer’s life, liberty or position • The initial motivation being the intention to help persecuted Jews: i.e. not for payment or any other reward such as religious conversion of the saved person, adoption of a child, etc. • The existence of testimony of those who were helped or at least unequivocal documentation establishing the nature of the rescue and its circumstances.
