Elia Dalla Costa holds the title Righteous Among the Nations, given by Yad Vashem to those who saved Jews during the Holocaust at risk to themselves.
The record lists Elia Dalla Costa as Catholic cardinal (1872–1961).
Elia Dalla Costa was born at Villaverla in 1872. His recorded nationality is Italy. He was educated at University of Padua.
By occupation Elia Dalla Costa was catholic priest, catholic bishop and archbishop - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Rescue during the Holocaust was not a grand gesture but a sequence of small, repeatable risks taken over months or years.
Recognition: Righteous Among the Nations (2012).
Elia Dalla Costa died in 1961, aged 89. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 2012
- Worked as Catholic priest, Catholic bishop and archbishop
- Educated at University of Padua
