In recent years, the Lithuania-based diplomat who issued thousands of visas to Jews became a household name - but is his lionization part of a familiar post-Holocaust phenomenon?

The story of the Japanese consulate worker who saved thousands of Jewish refugees in Lithuania in 1940 is now being told in concert halls around the globe - and in NYC on April 19

18 people who risked lives on behalf of fellow Jews to be posthumously honored at B'nai B'rith Holocaust Remembrance Day event aimed at refuting claims about Jewish capitulation

In a one-man-show that aired Monday, the famous character actor tells the story of a Catholic hero who snuck into the Warsaw Ghetto to report the Nazi atrocities there to the world

The daughter of Ho Feng-Shan, a Vienna-based diplomat who in WWII issued thousands of illicit exit visas to Shanghai, protests the blurring of fact and fiction in 'Night Angels'

Live in LA through Feb. 6, Jordan Bielsky performs saga of brothers who saved 1,250 Jews in WWII; other family members amplify ancestors' heroism in film, exhibit and classroom

Director Roman Shumunov tells the story of Leonid Berenshtein, who climbed the ranks in the underground, eventually discovering the factory producing Hitler's dreaded V2 rockets

Rudolf Vrba should be celebrated for his role in preventing the deportation of many of Budapest's Jews, says UK author Jonathan Freedland in his new book, 'The Escape Artist'

Stephen Edwards, director of the new documentary 'Syndrome K' narrated by Ray Liotta, talks about uncovering a piece of history he calls 'the greatest elevator pitch in Hollywood'

The former teacher is celebrated for risking her life to ferry young ones to safety, keeping coded records whenever possible to reunite them with their parents after the war