Nic Waal is recorded at Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations - one of the non-Jews who risked everything to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
The record lists Nic Waal as Norwegian Righteous Among the Nations.
Nic Waal was born at Christiania in 1905. Her recorded nationality is Norway. She was educated at University of Oslo Faculty of Medicine.
By occupation Nic Waal was psychiatrist, writer and pediatrician - 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 (2006).
Nic Waal died in 1960, aged 55. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 2006
- Worked as psychiatrist, writer and pediatrician
- Educated at University of Oslo Faculty of Medicine
