Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Righteous Among the Nations medal and presentation box awarded to a non-Jewish woman by Yad Vashem in recognition of her saving a Jewish mother and son in Hungary during the Holocaust.
- Date
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received:
1978 January 29
- Geography
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issue:
Jerusalem, Israel
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Michael Mautner
- Markings
- front, center, embossed: [Hebrew text] [whoever saves one life, it is as if he saved an entire universe]
back, center, embossed: [Hebrew text / LE PEUPLE JIUF/ RECONNAISSANT] [A token of gratitude from the Jewish people / The Grateful Jewish People]
back, bottom, around edge, embossed : QUICONQUE SAUVE UNE VIE SAUVE L’UNIVERS TOUT ENTIER [whoever saves one life, it is as if he saved an entire universe”
edge, top, engraved : STATE OF ISRAEL [five branched menorah and Hebrew text] [State of Israel] - Contributor
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Subject:
Irene Horvath
Designer: Nathan Karp
Issuer: Yad Vashem
Physical Details
- Classification
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Awards
- Category
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Medals
- Object Type
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Medals, Israeli (lcsh)
- Genre/Form
- Medals.
- Physical Description
- Heavy, circular, gray-colored metal medal with embossed designs on both the front and back. The front features an image of a globe at the top-center, with wire wrapped three times around the northern hemisphere. The wire then continues once more around the globe, and descends below and forms an intricate braid with five strands of barbed wire that fan out across the bottom and run off the edge of the image. Two arms covered by long, striped sleeves emerge from the bottom and clutch two of the strands of barbed wire. An embossed Hebrew phrase surrounds the globe, divided in half by the wire. On the back is a landscape scene of a low, flat building with stone walls (the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem) and undulating mountains in the background. In the expanse below the building is a single, small tree, with two lines of embossed Hebrew text, the engraved name of the awardee, and two lines of embossed French text. Around the bottom edge of the medal is an embossed phrase in French.
- Dimensions
- overall: | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Diameter: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm)
- Materials
- overall : copper alloy
- Inscription
- back, center, engraved : A HORVATH IRENE [TO HORVATH IRENE]
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Jerusalem.
- Corporate Name
- Yad Vashem (Jerusalem)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The medal was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 by Michael Mautner, the rescuee of Irene Gigor Horvath.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-05 11:24:13
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn8561
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