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It's the date of Mosze Bejski's death (born in Działoszyce, near Cracow) - the initiatior of The Garden of the Righteous in Jerusalem as well as the co-originator of the "Righteous Among the Nations" definition.

Righteous Among the Nations term (Chasidei Umot HaOlam) originates from Jewish tradition - the Wisemen literature - where it was used to describe non-Jews who came to rescue to Jews in need or to non-Jews who obeyed the fundamental principles of the Bible, shedding of blood prohibition including. Therefore, Yad Vashem has used this existing term and gave it a new meaning. (source: http://www.yadvashem.org)

Today, the term of 'righteous" has its universal meaning. It refers not only to people who facing the genocide had the courage to help the victims, but also it referst to all those who act in a defence of others all around the world. 

Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations in Yad Vashem, where all trees commemorating the rescuers are planted, has inaugurated the Holocaust Remembrance Day in 1962.