War Heroes & Victims - a very small selection of very special humans
DATE(S) TOPIC - a short history (CLICK THE TITLE BELOW)
1943 Charlie Brown & Fritz Stigler: "A Higher Call" - the story of a Luftwaffe pilot who held fire ....
1929-1945 Anne Frank - Angel from Heaven
1925-1943 Lepa Svetozara Radić: the astonishing teenage Yugoslavian resistance fighter hanged by the Nazis
1925-1941 Audie Murphy: the most decorated soldier in U.S. history - and a major film star
1924-2004 Madeline Riffaud: heroine of the French Resistance
1921-2023 Phyllis Latour: young heroine and last survivor of the WWII S.O.E. (Special Operations Executive)
1920-1945 Hannie Schaft: legendary Dutch Resistance fighter
1918-2003 Irena Gut Opdyke: the young nurse who hid Jews from the Nazi officier she was housekeeper for
1916-2007 Andrée de Jongh: a young woman who saved over 700 British airmen from the Nazis
1915-1944 John F. Fox: under attack by a superior German force, he sacrificed himself to save others
1914-1944 Noor Inayat Khan (Nora Baker): an Indian Princess and WWII Resistance fighter murdered by the Nazis
1913-2008 Irena Sendler: saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazi roundup in the Warsaw ghettto
1909-2015 Nicholas Winton: managed to save 699 children from the Nazis (the "British Schindler")
1909-1951 Sultan Muhammed V of Morocco, who prevented the Nazis from deporting Jews in WWII
1908-1952 Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek (CHristine Granville): one of S.O.E.'s bravest and most astonishing agents
1905-2004 Lise de Baissac (Odile): SOE Resistance fighter in WWII
1906-1973 Georg Duckwitz, the German diplomat who saved over 7,000 Danish Jews in 1943
1903-2014 Alice Herz-Sommer, the Nazi Death Camp pianist
1903-1944 Vera Leigh: S.O.E. agent betrayed by Roger Bardet and burned alive by the Nazis
1899-1943 Jean Moulin: heroic leader of the French Resistance in WWII
1898-1990 Rose Valland: saved the lives of 60,000 works of art from under the Nazis' noses ....
1898-1971 Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller: the most decorated U.S. Marine in history
1897-1970 Karl Plagge: the Nazi who saved Jews
1878-1942 Janusz Korczak: sacrificed himself in Treblinka extermination camp looking after his orphans
1757-1834 The Marquis de Lafayette: "Hero of Two Worlds"