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On April 23, 1987, the Anti-Defamation League created a unique award called “Courage to Care” to honor rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust era. The ADL Courage to Care Award was renamed in 2011 in honor of one of its first recipients, Jan Karski, a Polish diplomat and righteous gentile who provided the West with one of the first eyewitness accounts of Hitler's Final Solution.
The award is a plaque with miniature bas-reliefs that depicts the horrifying context — the Nazis’ persecution, deportation and murder of millions of Jews — that served as a backdrop for the rescuers’ exceptional deeds. It is a replica of the plaques that constitute the Holocaust Memorial Wall created by noted sculptor Arbit Blatas, who also created the Holocaust Memorial in Paris and the display in the old ghetto of Venice, Italy.
The award, based on ADL’s evaluation of the rescuers’ acts, is given during specific programs and ceremonies sponsored by ADL, which often occur several times a year.
The Courage to Care program is made possible through a generous grant from Eileen Ludwig Greenland.
Courage to Care Honorees
2018
Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus
2017
Józefa Bizior-Horyslawsky
Zofia Tomaszewski
2016
2015
Nikita Lukyanovich
Sofia Lukyanovich
Svetlana Lukyanovich
2014
2013
Metropolitan Szeptycki
Varian Fry
2012
Dr. Feng Shan Ho
Colonel José Arturo Castellanos
2011
Count János Esterházy
Francisca Halamajowa
2010
Horst B. Lantzsch
Irena Sendler
Jaap Penraat
Arlette deMonceau Michaelis
2009
Irene Gut Opdyke
2008
Gilberto Bosques Saldívar
Eduardo Propper de Callejón
Clara M. Ambrus (Bayer)
2007
Martha and Waitstill Sharp
Khaled Abdelwahhab
Ernst Leitz II
Mefail and Njazi Biçaku
2006
Hiram (Harry) Bingham IV
Nicholas Winton
Konstantin Koslovsky
2004
Giovanni Palatucci
Dimitrios P. Spiliakos
2003
Dr. Kostas Nikolaou
Johanna Vos
The Partisans of Riccone, Italy
2002
Hans Georg Calmeyer
2000
Hannah Pick-Goslar
1999
Monsignor Beniamo Schivo
1998
The People of Bulgaria
1997
Shyqyri Myrto
1996
Renia and Jerzy Kozminski
1993
Emilie and Oskar Schindler
Alice and Paul Paulus
People of Denmark
1991
Peter Vlcko
Stefania Burzminski
1990
Mela and Alex Roslan
Friedrich Born
Marion P. Pritchard
1989
Anna and Jan Pulchalski
Le Chambon-Sur-Lignon
Chiune Sugihara
1988
Selahattin Ulkumen
Jan Karski
1987
Aristides De Sousa Mendes
Jan and Miep Gies