overall: | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Diameter: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm)
Righteous Among the Nations medal and presentation box awarded to a non-Jewish woman by Yad Vashem in recognition of her saving a Jewish mother and son in Hungary during the Holocaust.
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Righteous Among the Nations medal awarded to a Hungarian rescuer
Heavy, circular, gray-colored metal medal with embossed designs on both the front and back. The front features an image of a globe at the top-center, with wire wrapped three times around the northern hemisphere. The wire then continues once more around the globe, and descends below and forms an intricate braid with five strands of barbed wire that fan out across the bottom and run off the edge of the image. Two arms covered by long, striped sleeves emerge from the bottom and clutch two of the strands of barbed wire. An embossed Hebrew phrase surrounds the globe, divided in half by the wire. On the back is a landscape scene of a low, flat building with stone walls (the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem) and undulating mountains in the background. In the expanse below the building is a single, small tree, with two lines of embossed Hebrew text, the engraved name of the awardee, and two lines of embossed French text. Around the bottom edge of the medal is an embossed phrase in French. back, center, engraved : A HORVATH IRENE [TO HORVATH IRENE]
The medal was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 by Michael Mautner, the rescuee of Irene Gigor Horvath.