| Immortal Heroes - a very small selection of very special humans |
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| DATE(S) |
TOPIC - a short history (CLICK THE TITLE BELOW) |
| A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of SHORTER PROFILES |
| 11/9/2001 |
There were MANY heroes on that day: these few represent them all. |
| United Airlines Flight 93 and the passengers who saved the White House or Capitol |
| Marc Sasseville & Heather Penney: took off to ram the hijacked Flight 93, whose passengers did the job for them |
| Todd Beamer on United Airlines Flight 93 |
| Rick Rescorla in the Twin Towers, the Morgan Stanley Security Officer who died saving so many of his colleagues |
| 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 |
| 1921-1943 |
Sophie Scholl: a young girl who refused to remain silent in the face of Nazi evil - and paid with her young life |
| 1921-2023 |
Phyllis Latour: young heroine and last survivor of the WWII S.O.E. (Special Operations Executive) |
| 1921-2010 |
Eileen Mary "Didi" Nearne: the S.O.E. radio operator who fooled the Nazis and died unrecognized |
| 1920-2012 |
Tina Strobos: a Dutch medical student who refused to accept Nazism and saved the lives of many Jews |
| 1920-1945 |
Hannie Schaft: legendary Dutch Resistance fighter |
| 1919-2017 |
Jeannie Rousseau de Clarens: passed invaluable information to the Allies and survived torture in 3 Nazi camps |
| 1919-1985 |
Roddie Waring Edwards: captured with his men by the Nazis, he refused a Nazi's demand to give up his Jews. |
| 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 |
| 1914-2012 |
Raymond & Lucie Aubrac: heroes of the French Resistance in WWII |
| 1914-1978 |
Zivia Lubetkin: courageous member of High Command of the Polish Resistance who survived the war |
| 1914-1944 |
Renée Lemaire: the nurse who gave her life tending to wounded American soldiers in the Battle of Bastogne. |
| 1914-1945 |
Lilian Rolfe: yet another S.O.E. radio operator who resisted Gestapo torture to save her colleagues |
| 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 |
| 1912-2011 |
Nancy Wake: "The White Mouse" whom the Gestapo never caught |
| 1912-2000 |
Pietro Pallazzini, the Vatican priest who saved 37 families from the Nazis |
| 1912-1995 |
Odette Marie Léonie Céline Hallowes: the S.O.E. operative revealed nothing under sustained Gestapo torture |
| 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 |
| 1906-1988 |
Dr. Adelaide Hautval: who said "No" to the Nazis, saved many camp inmates and helped bring justice postwar |
| 1905-2010 |
Andrée Peel: Agent Rose, yet another incredibly brave woman of the Resistance |
| 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 |
| 1901-1992 |
Marlene Dietrich: a world-famous film star, yet most are unaware of her wartime heroism |
| 1901-1948 |
Witold Pilecki: volunteered to go to Auschwitz in 1940 to spy on it: executed by Polish Communists in 1948 |
| 1900-1942 |
Anton Schmid: an ordinary family men and Wehrmacht member who saved some 300 Jews and died for it. |
| 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 |
| 1895-1952 |
Wilhelm Hosenfeld: the Nazi officer who protected Jews, including Władysław Szpilman: "the Pianist". |
| 1892-1946 |
Traian Popovici: the Rumanian Oscar Schindler who never received recognition |
| 1891-1952 |
Albert Battel: the Nazi Wehrmacht officer who defied the SS to save 500 Jews |
| 1885-1969 |
Princess Alice of Battenberg who hid a family from the Gestapo and devoted her life to charitable causes |
| 1884-1974 |
Margit Slachta: the Hungarian nun who saved many 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" |