Viorica Agarici 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 Viorica Agarici as Red Cross chairwoman, nurse (1886–1979).
Viorica Agarici was born at Romania in 1886. Her recorded nationality is Romania.
By occupation Viorica Agarici was nurse and social activist - 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 (1983).
Viorica Agarici died in 1979, aged 93. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1983
- Worked as nurse and social activist
