Kiddush Hashem

Question

If a non-Jew dies while committing Kiddish Hashem, are they automatically granted the status of a convert to Judaism? For example those that died in the Holocaust because they had Jewish lineage but were not Halachically Jewish. Does their martyrdom elevate their status?

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  1. The Just Ask! - AskTheRabbi.org Team

    I have never seen a source that suggests that such an action elevates the soul to that of a Jew unless the person was sincerely planning on converting and was not able to do so before they died. What is certain, however, is that the soul of a non-Jew who dies Al Kiddush Hashem is given a very lofty position in the World of Souls.

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