Sára Salkaházi, SSS (born Sarolta Klotild Schalkház; 11 May 1899 – 27 December 1944) was a Hungarian Catholic religious sister who saved the lives of approximately one hundred Jews during World War II.

[5] During the final months of World War II, she helped shelter hundreds of Jews in a building belonging to the Sisters of Social Service in Hungary's capital, Budapest.

Betrayed to the authorities by a woman working in the house, the Jews she had sheltered were taken prisoner by members of the Hungarian pro-Nazi Arrow Cross Party.

The prisoners were lined up on the bank of the Danube River on 27 December 1944 and shot,[8] together with four Jewish women and a Christian co-worker who was not a member of her religious institute.

In 1969,[9] her deeds on behalf of Hungarian Jews were recognized by Yad Vashem[8] after she was nominated by the daughter of one of the Jewish women she was hiding, who was killed alongside her.

On 17 September 2006 Salkaházi was beatified in a proclamation by Pope Benedict XVI, read by Cardinal Péter Erdő during a Mass outside St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest,[8] which said in part, "She was willing to assume risks for the persecuted ... in days of great fear.

[8][10] Speaking at the Mass, Rabbi József Schweitzer said of Salkaházi, "I know from personal experience ... how dangerous and heroic it was in those times to help Jews and save them from death.

Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said, "The honor bestowed by Pope Benedict XVI on Sister Sara Salkahazi for risking and eventually giving her life to save Jews in peril is an important statement by the church.

It is unfortunate that there were not more individuals like Sister Sara, but her example must be held up to demonstrate how lives can be saved when good people take action to confront evil."