War Heroes & Victims
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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  
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")  
1905-2004 Lise de Baissac (Odile): SOE Resistance fighter in WWII  
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  
1878-1942 Janusz Korczak: sacrificed himself in Treblinka extermination camp looking after his orphans  
1757-1834 The Marquis de Lafayette: "Hero of Two Worlds"