Among the names Yad Vashem honours as Righteous Among the Nations is Justin Godart.
The record lists Justin Godart as French politician, conferred with Righteous Among the Nations (1871–1956).
Justin Godart was born at 6th arrondissement of Lyon in 1871. His recorded nationality is France.
By occupation Justin Godart was politician, lawyer and french resistance fighter - 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 (2003) and Commander of the Legion of Honour.
Justin Godart died in 1956, aged 85. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 2003
- Commander of the Legion of Honour
- Worked as politician, lawyer and French resistance fighter
