Pietro Boetto 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 Pietro Boetto as Catholic cardinal (1871–1946).
Pietro Boetto was born at Vigone in 1871. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Italy.
By occupation Pietro Boetto was catholic priest and catholic bishop - 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 (2016).
Pietro Boetto died in 1946, aged 75. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 2016
- Worked as Catholic priest and Catholic bishop
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