The title was officially handed over to Roter's daughter, Jasenka Petrovic, by Israeli Ambassador to Croatia, Shmuel Meirom, during a ceremony in the Adriatic resort of Dubrovnik on Sunday evening.
Roter, born in Sarajevo 1897 and died in 1959, worked as a reporter in Sarajevo when the war broke out in 1941. He helped his colleague, Jew Abraham Koen, his wife Lota and daughter Mira to leave Sarajevo and to live in his house on the peninsula of Peljesac for some time.
In December 2004, the Yad Vashem, the Israeli state-run Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance institution, decided to bestow the title posthumously on Roter.
Over 100 Croatians have so war been given this title.