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Righteous Among the Nations (Hebrew: חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם ḥasidei ummot ha'olam) is a title used by Yad Vashem to describe people who, for various reasons, made an effort to assist victims, mostly Jews and Romani but also other ethnic groups of people, who were being persecuted and exterminated by Nazi Germany, Fascist Croatia, Fascist Romania, Fascist Italy, and other local close allies and collaborators, during the Holocaust. The term originates from the concept of ger toshav, a legal term used to refer to non-Jewish observers of the Seven Laws of Noah.