She traveled to Jerusalem in 1977 to provide the sole testimony that led to Socha and Wroblewski and their wives being named `` Righteous Among the Nations , '' enabling the two families to receive monthly stipends and establishing them among 23,788 heroic figures from 45 countries upon whom Yad Vashem had formally accorded the honor at last count . David Preston 's mother and nine others survived the Holocaust hiding in sewers for 14 months . Score: 6 Halina Wind Preston was the force behind a garden memorial to honor `` Righteous Gentiles '' Preston : Nazis wanted no Jew to survive , so every act of rescue and survival is sacred .
David Preston 's mother and nine others survived the Holocaust hiding in sewers for 14 months . Score: 6 Halina Wind Preston was the force behind a garden memorial to honor `` Righteous Gentiles '' Preston : Nazis wanted no Jew to survive , so every act of rescue and survival is sacred .