Gitta Mallasz 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 Gitta Mallasz as Hungarian artist.
Gitta Mallasz was born at Ljubljana in 1907. Her recorded nationality is Hungary.
By occupation Gitta Mallasz was writer, swimmer and graphic artist - 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: Righteous Among the Nations (2011).
Gitta Mallasz died in 1992, aged 85. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 2011
- Worked as writer, swimmer and graphic artist
