Among the names Yad Vashem honours as Righteous Among the Nations is Ángel Sanz Briz.
The record lists Ángel Sanz Briz as Spanish diplomat (1910-1980).
Ángel Sanz Briz was born at Zaragoza in 1910. His recorded nationality is Spain. He was educated at School of St. Thomas Aquinas of the Piarist Schools of Zaragoza and University of Zaragoza.
By occupation Ángel Sanz Briz was diplomat - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Yad Vashem's criteria are strict: the rescuer must have risked their life, liberty or position, and must have sought no payment. That is why the title carries the weight it does.
Recognition: Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (1961), Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III (1980), Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru (1967) and Hungarian Order of Merit (1994).
Ángel Sanz Briz died in 1980, aged 70. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit — 1961
- Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III — 1980
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru — 1967
- Hungarian Order of Merit — 1994
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Quetzal
- Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau
- Worked as diplomat
- Educated at School of St. Thomas Aquinas of the Piarist Schools of Zaragoza and University of Zaragoza
