At a ceremony held at the Royal Palace in Warsaw, certificates as "Righteous Among the Nations" certificates were posthumously awarded to ten Poles for saving Jews during the Holocaust. The moving ceremony was attended by their relatives and families of the Jews they saved.
With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, 3 million Jews lived in Poland, almost all of whom were murdered in the death camps. Since 1963, the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial institution has awarded the title "Righteous Among the Nations" for those who saved Jews during the Holocaust, with the highest number coming from Poland.