Gaetano Tantalo 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 Gaetano Tantalo as Italian presbyter (1905–1947).
Gaetano Tantalo was born at Villavallelonga in 1905. His recorded nationality is Italy.
By occupation Gaetano Tantalo was presbyter - 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 (1978).
Gaetano Tantalo died in 1947, aged 42. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1978
- Worked as presbyter
