Righteous Among the Nations Medal

Los Angeles, United States, awarded April 27, 1976

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A wooden box lined with blue velvet containing a silver medal featuring Hebrew and French inscriptions and a carving of a large square building with mountains in the background.
Medal featuring Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem with Hebrew and French inscriptions. Housed in rectangular wooden case lined with blue velvet fabric.
A silver medal depicting hands clutching a barbed wire rescue line wrapped around the globe. Hebrew text is inscribed around the image.
Medal depicts hands clutching barbed wire rescue line around globe. Hebrew text inscribed around the image.

Yad Vashem awarded this medal to Jacob and Jeltje Oversloot of the Netherlands. At great risk to their family’s safety, the couple hid Leo and Emmy Krell in their home after the Krells were ordered to report for deportation to the camps. The Krells’ infant son, Robert, survived in hiding with another family. After the war, the Krell family reunited and immigrated to Vancouver.  

In translation, the medal’s inscription reads: “A token of gratitude from the Jewish people. Whosoever saves one life saves the universe entire.”

Loaned to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre by Jacob Oversloot. L2015.012.001

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