Among the names Yad Vashem honours as Righteous Among the Nations is Jean-Baptiste Janssens.
The record lists Jean-Baptiste Janssens as Jesuit Superior General (1889–1964).
Jean-Baptiste Janssens was born at Mechelen in 1889. His recorded nationality is Belgium. He was educated at Pontifical Gregorian University and UCLouvain Saint-Louis – Bruxelles.
By occupation Jean-Baptiste Janssens was catholic priest, teacher and canon law jurist - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
The people honoured as Righteous Among the Nations were overwhelmingly ordinary; what distinguished them was that they acted while their neighbours did not.
Recognition: Righteous Among the Nations (1975).
Jean-Baptiste Janssens died in 1964, aged 75. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1975
- Worked as Catholic priest, teacher and canon law jurist
- Educated at Pontifical Gregorian University and UCLouvain Saint-Louis – Bruxelles
