Bouquets of flowers have piled up at the entrance to the U.S. Holocaust Museum, a small memorial to a man one of the bouquet’s inscriptions called “a righteous gentile.”

The moniker has long-been used to describe the non-Jews who helped save Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

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