Renée Lévy née le 25 septembre 1906 à Auxerre et guillotinée le 31 août 1943 à Cologne, est une résistante française inhumée dans le Mémorial de la France combattante.

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Willem Johan "Pim" Kolff (February 14, 1911 – February 11, 2009) was a pioneer of hemodialysis as well as in the field of artificial organs. Willem is a member of the Kolff family, an old Dutch patrici...

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Information about Henry Morgenthau, Jr. from Wikipedia Henry Morgenthau, Jr. ( /ˈmɔrɡənθɔː/; May 11, 1891 – February 6, 1967) was the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the administration of Frank...

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Joseph Buttinger (30 April 1906, Reichersbeuern, Germany – 4 March 1992, Queens, New York) was an Austrian politician and, after his immigration to the United States, an expert on East Asia. Bu...

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Muriel Morris Gardiner Buttinger (November 23, 1901 – February 6, 1985) was an American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Early Life and career Gardiner was born on November 23, 1901 in Chi...

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Werner Karl von Haeften (9 October 1908 – 21 July 1944 was an Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht, who took part in the military-based conspiracy against Adolf Hitler known as the July 20 Plot. He is conside...

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English biography on Wikipedia: --- Biografia w języku polskim: 16/05/2005, 22:18 Witold Pilecki Prawdopodobnie bohater o najodważniejszej karcie z całej II wojny światowej. Człowiek, ...

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Jozef Zwonarz was a Polish mechanical engineer who lived in Lesko. In his own home, without the knowledge of his wife and five children, he hid Jaffa and Norris Wallach, her brother Pinkas and her si...

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Kudlatschek was a Sudeten German, in charge of the motor pool of all the textile mills in Bialystok. He provided transport for a number of Jews in his own car, travelling to partisan territory, and t...

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Beneschek was a Sudenten German and Communist, hiding in Bialystok from the Gestapo under a false identity. As manage of a textile mill situated on the border of the ghetto, he employed both Jews and P...

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Leader of the Jewish Fighting Organisation in Bialystok. Source The Holocaust - Martin Gilbert, page 486

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More than 12,000 Greek Jews fought with distinction against the Italian advance from Salonica. One of those, Mordechai Fraggi,a Greek Jew and the Greek national hero, was killed in action. Source ...

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Chaika Grossman and Frumka Plotnicka were heroic girls. Frumka was discovered hiding in a cellar in August 1943. She died fighting, armed only with a handgun. Boldly they traveled back and forth from...

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Warsaw, Poland

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Dr Elchanan Elkes was a doctor, a leading Zionist , and appointed the Chairman of the Jewish Council in Kovno on 5 August 1941. One of the three lawyers who helped Dr Elkes in his work recalled, " Neve...

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Israel Karp was shot by the German military authorities in Bordeaux. His had been an individual act of resistance, one of the first of the war in occupied France. Karp had attacked a detachment of ...

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Georgio Perlasca Fondazione Home Page - Italian Giorgio Perlasca (Como January 31, 1910 – August 15, 1992) was an Italian who posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and...

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Carl Lutz Home Page Carl Lutz (b. Walzenhausen, 30 March 1895; d. Berne,12 February 1975) was the Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest, Hungary from 1942 until the end of World War II. He helped save tens o...

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Selahattin Ülkümen (14 January 1914 in Antakya – 7 July 2003 in Istanbul) was a Turkish diplomat and consul in Rhodes during the Second World War, who assisted many local Jews to escape the Holocaust. ...

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William Warren Barbour (July 31, 1888 – November 22, 1943) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1931 to 1937 and again from 1938 unt...

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For her Resistance work in WW2, she got both the "Yad Vashem" and the Dutch Verzetskruis.She saved, or helped save, maybe 50 people,some anonymous, some known to her.She was incredibly brave.

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Felix Hendrik Bloemgarten studeerde in Delft toen de Tweede Wereldoorlog uitbrak. Nadat de Joodse studenten niet langer aan de universiteit welkom waren was hij actief in het Delfts verzet. In 1941 b...

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Википедия

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La princesse Véra Obolensky, née Véra Apollonovna Makarova (en russe Вера Аполлоновна Оболенская), surnommée Vicky, née le 11 juin 1911 et morte le 4 août 1944 guillotinée à la prison de Plötzensee à B...

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José Arturo Castellanos Contreras (San Vicente, El Salvador, December 23, 1893 — San Salvador, June 18, 1977) was a Salvadoran army colonel and diplomat who, while working as El Salvador's Consul Gener...

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Marcel Marceau (22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was an internationally acclaimed French actor and mime most famous for his persona as Bip the Clown. He performed all over the world in order to sprea...

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Biography in English

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Mother Maria in English Wikipedia

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Holocaust Hero, George Mantello Bio George Mandel-Mantello and his Mission to Rescue Europe's Jews YouTube Video A FORGOTTEN SUITCASE: THE MANTELLO RESCUE MISSION Seeking tribute for a Salvadoran...

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Communist and German resistance fighter against National Socialism. Deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed on August 2, 1943. See:

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Francis Beverley Biddle (May 9, 1886 – October 4, 1968) was an American lawyer and judge who was Attorney General of the United States during World War II and who served as the primary American judge...

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note ^ The meaning of the 'J' in J. Robert Oppenheimer has been a source of confusion. Historians Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner sum up the general historical opinion in their volume Robert O...

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Author, Jonas Kreppel killed in Holocaust "Der Weltkrieg und die Judenfrage", by Jonas Kreppel

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HaRav Menashe Yaakov Levertov's Legacy Tribute to the infinite faith and courage of Rav Menashe Yaakov Levertov, Dayan, Rav and Chief Rabbi of Krakow. Saved by Oscar Schindler Photos with Schindler...

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"Nina" Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg (27 August 1913 – 2 April 2006) was the wife of Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the leader of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 19...

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Alexander Franz Clemens Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (15 March 1905 in Stuttgart – 27 January 1964 in Munich) was a German aristocrat and historian. Alexander was the younger twin of Berthold Sch...

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Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg commonly referred to as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (German pronunciation: [ˈklaʊs ˈʃɛŋk ˈɡʁaːf fɔn ˈʃtaʊfənbɛɐ̯k], Claus von Stauffenb...

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Berthold Alfred Maria Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg (born 15 March 1905 in Stuttgart — executed 10 August 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee) was a German aristocrat, lawyer and conspirator in the 20 July plot o...

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Tel Aviv, Israel

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Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort , Verushka's father, was a German count and army reserve officer who became a key member of the German Resistance. Steinort was executed for attempting to assassi...

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Yisrael (Israel) Meir Lau ישראל מאיר לאו is the Chairman of Yad Vashem and Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Israel. He previously served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1993 to 2003. Wikipedia Ch...

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Omstreden vaderschap Het vaderschap van de 63-jarige Willem III staat ter discussie. Hij zou namelijk op latere leeftijd wegens syfilis geen kinderen hebben kunnen verwekken. Volgens de geruchten hee...

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Awarded with the medal Righteous Among the Nations (Yad Vashem) February 7,1999 Zorgzaam tot het einde .Haar laatste woorden tegen mij.(Ik kwam terug uit de USA en ging direct van Schiphol door naar ...

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Awarded with the medal righteous among the nations (Yad Vashem) february 7 1999 Arnold, his wife Helena, and son Johan (Henk) hid and kept safe Leo van Gelder and his parents from 1943 to 1945. Leo w...

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Randolph Churchill 1911-1968 Son of the then Prime Minister, Winston Churchill he suggested a rescue mission to his father to save Jews from Nazi persecution in 1943. He proposed that when the airc...

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Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, George Catlett Marshall (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959) was an American mi...

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האדמו"ר מבלוזוב Hebrew Books תיאור מסע הלוויתו Hebrew Books

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according to the memories of Boszi Falk, Tommy spent most of WW2 in hiding at his father's cousin Lilly Hirschenhauser's house in Szombotelly, Hungary. after Lilly's husband got sent to the camps - Lil...

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Bratislava, Slovakia

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Vienna, Austria

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London, United Kingdom

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Adolf Abraham Berman (17 October 1906, Warsaw – 3 February 1978, Tel-Aviv) was a Polish-Jewish psychologist, member of Poale Zion Left party, editor of Arbeter Cajtung[1], who held a leadership role in...

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Jakub Berman (December 26, 1901, in Warsaw, then Russian Empire – April 10, 1984), was a Polish communist politician. As a member of the Polish United Workers' Party's Politburo he was in charge of Sta...

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Cornelis Sieswerda used his position as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine to work with the Dutch Resistance in North Holland during WWll.

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איך ליצור ולהרוס גיבורה לאומית - אלי אשד Hannah Szenes (July 17, 1921 – November 7, 1944) was a Hungarian Jew, one of 37 Jews who were trained by the British army to parachute into Yugoslavia during ...

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Dr. Rudolf Vrba's Biography Heroic Mastermind of the Legendary Vrba-Wetzler report Deaf Ears, Blind Eyes . Holocaust Archives ------------------------------ ------ New York Times

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Dr. Béla 2009 (14 April 1912 - 4 July 2009) was a Hungarian resistance fighter during World War II, as well as a military historian, author, and politician. New York Times Obituary Bela Kiraly Dies...

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Lion Feuchtwanger (7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German-Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwr...

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Jacob (Jaap) Nunes Vaz was born 20 September 1906 in Amsterdam, Holland. Member of the independent socialist party. He worked as a journalist for the underground newspaper “het Parool” and was arrested...

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Oskar Schindler - Rescuer of 1200 Jews The Schindler List of Rescued Jews Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was an ethnic German industrialist born in Szitavy (German: Zwittau), Mo...

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Emilie Schindler (October 22, 1907 – October 5, 2001) was a humanitarian who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200[ to 1,700 Jews during World War II. Oskar Schindler, a ...

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Rabbi Dr. Weinberg suffered persecution and imprisonment under the Nazi regime for his attempts to help fellow Jews leave Germany, and was forced to return to Austria. He served as an educator in the D...

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Georgy Zhukov - Гео́ргий Жу́ков Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (Russian: Гео́ргий Константи́нович Жу́ков; 1 December [O.S. 19 November] 1896 – 18 June 1974) was a Russian c...

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Résistante dès juin 1940, elle multiplie les actions de renseignement et d’information, notamment au sein du réseau « Défense de la France ». Arrêtée par Pierre Bonny de la bande du 93 de la rue Lauris...

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Photo: April 1946, Josef Rosensaft, the General Director of the Central Jewish Commission, at an Unveiling Ceremony of a Memorial Commemorating The First Anniversary of the Camp's Liberation, Bergen-Be...

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Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (pronounced /məntˈɡʌmərɪ əv ˈæləmeɪn/; 17 November 1...

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Erwin Planck (12 March 1893 – 23 January 1945) was a German politician, and a resistance fighter in the Third Reich. Born in Berlin, Erwin Planck was theoretical physicist Max Planck's and his first ...

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Leo Baeck (23 May 1873 – 2 November 1956) was a 20th century German-Polish-Jewish Rabbi, scholar, and a leader of Progressive Judaism. He became a spiritual symbol in Theresienstadt, as leader to tho...

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Bringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his tw...

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Honored as a "Righteous Among The Nations" at the Yad Vashem in Israel. From 13 November 1943 to 16 April 1945 Afke and her daughter Tine hid Levie de Zwaan and Adelheid van der Heijden so that they ...

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Honored as a "Righteous Among The Nations" at the Yad Vashem in Israel. See story in Tine's mothers profile.

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Chiune Sugihara Chiune Sugihara (杉原 千畝, Sugihara Chiune, 1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986) was a Japanese diplomat who served as Vice Consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania. During World War II, he...

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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle ( 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Rep...

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953). As vice president, he succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died less than three months...

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Neumann János Wikipedia, Magyar / Hungarian John von Neumann Wikipedia, English John von Neumann (1903 - 1957) is generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians in modern history. He is...

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Roosevelt Genealogy: SOURCE: Wikipedia Biographical Summary: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945; pronounced /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/ ROE-zə-velt)[ was the 32nd President of ...

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KBE is a Romanian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor . He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as ...

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Martha Ingham Dickie Sharp-Cogan (1905 - 1999) was an American philanthropist who, along with her husband Waitstill Sharp, helped hundreds of Jews to escape Nazi persecution by sending them off through...

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Wife of Valdemar Langlet who was a Swedish publisher, and an early Esperantist and credited with saving many Jews from the Holocaust, by providing Swedish documents saying that people were waiting for ...

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Valdemar Langlet photo/article photos Valdemar Langlet (December 17, 1872 in Lerbo, Sweden – October 16, 1960 in Stockholm) was a Swedish publisher, and an early Esperantist. With his wife Nina...

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Algoth Niska oli ruotsinkielisen merikapteenin Ivar Alfred Niskan ja muusikko Hilda Niskan (o.s. Schlüter) poika. Perheessä oli viisi lasta, joista Algoth oli nuorin. Isä kuoli, kun Algoth oli 14-v...

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Hiram "Harry" Bingham IV (July 17, 1903 – January 12, 1988) was an American diplomat. He served as a Vice-Consul in Marseille, France, during World War II, and helped over 2,500 Jews to flee from Fra...

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Folke Bernadotte (1895-1948), Count of Wisborg, non-royal nephew of King Gustaf V , Swedish diplomat and Vice-Chair of the Swedish Red Cross. He negotiated the release of some 31,000 prisoners from Ger...

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer war ein lutherischer Theologe, profilierter Vertreter der Bekennenden Kirche und Teilnehmer am deutschen Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus. Mit 24 Jahren habilitiert, wurde...

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Marcus Lazarus

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Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie Princess of Battenberg, HSH Princess Alice of Battenburg. On marriage HRH Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark Royal house House of Battenberg (Cadet branch ...

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1...

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