According to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, the Righteous Among the Nations database includes 315 Greeks, not 307.
His first "hostess," Ursula Meissner, and his wife, Ellen, were awarded the Israeli order of the Righteous Among the Nations.
Last year, he was awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial centre in Jerusalem.
Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust memorial museum, has recognized more than 23,000 of these brave men and women as "The Righteous Among the Nations".
Yad Vashem has identified some 24,000 people as "Righteous Among the Nations," without regard to their countries of origin, age, religious denomination, sex or ethnicity.
Alas, Putzi receives as much attention as Varian, who died in 1967 and in 1994 was given the title Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
Yad Vashem is reviewing Palatucci's status as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, an honor roll of those who rescued Jews.
In 1966 Sousa Mendes was posthumously made one of the "Righteous Among the Nations", the honour given by Israel to those who assisted Jews during the war.
The righteous among the world's opera houses howled, but stopped howling when exclusive rights to "Parsifal" expired 10 years later, making the opera available to them as well.
A spokeswoman for Yad Vashem, the memorial, said that the museum awarded the honor of "righteous among the nations" to Capt.
Many more have acknowledged their gratitude by writing to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, where Israel honours the Righteous Among the Nations.
