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Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1885-1954)
- As the Portuguese consul-general in Bordeaux, France, Aristides de Sousa Mendes defied the orders of António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo regime, issuing visas and passports to refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, including Jews.
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Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1885-1954)
- Pictured is a life-saving visa issued by de Sousa Mendes on June 19, 1940, bearing the signature of his secretary, José Seabra.
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Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986)
- Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat who served as vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Kaunas, Lithuania. He issued an estimated 6,000 transit visas, mainly to Polish Jews stranded in Lithuania.
© Public Domain
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Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986)
- It has been estimated that as many as 100,000 people alive today are the descendants of the recipients of Sugihara visas. Pictured is a Czechoslovak passport with a visa, which he granted in 1940.
© Public Domain
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Oskar Schindler (1908-1974)
- Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. He did so by hiring them for his enamelware and ammunition factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
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Oskar Schindler (1908-1974)
- Schindler is the subject of the novel 'Schindler's Ark' (1982)and its Academy Award-winning film adaptation 'Schindler's List' (1993), which shows his extraordinary dedication to saving his Jewish employees.
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Sir Nicholas Winton (1909-2015)
- Sir Nicholas Winton was a British stockbroker who organized the rescue of 669 Czech-Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia before war broke out.
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Sir Nicholas Winton (1909-2015)
- Winton's story is told in the film 'One Life' (2024), which is based on the biography of the same name, written by his daughter Barbara Winton. He's pictured here in 2009 with one of the children evacuated to Britain.
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- One of the most beloved of Italian cyclists, Gino Bartali won the Tour de France in 1938 and 1948, and the Giro d'Italia twice, in 1936 and 1937.
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Gino Bartali (1914-2000)
- Bartali also earned respect for his work in helping Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis during the Italian Social Republic. It even emerged in 2010 that Bartali had hidden a Jewish family in his cellar.
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Irena Sendler (1910-2008)
- Polish nurse Irena Sendler, often referred to as "Jolanta," served as head of the children's department of Żegota Council to Aid Jews. Sendler is credited with smuggling 2,500 Jewish children out of Warsaw's ghetto.
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Irena Sendler (1910-2008)
- Sendler would hide the children with Polish Catholic families, giving each one a Christian pseudonym and false identity papers. She wore a yellow Star of David throughout her activities, in solidarity with the Jews.
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Carl Lutz (1895-1975)
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Carl Lutz (1895-1975)
- Due to his actions, half of the Jewish population of Budapest survived the Holocaust. Pictured is a letter of protection issued by Lutz in 1944.
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Laurence Steinhardt (1892-1950)
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© Public Domain
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Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1945)
- Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish architect and diplomat, serving as Sweden's special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944. In just six months, Wallenberg saved tens of thousands of lives by redesigning Swedish protective papers, which identified Hungarian Jews as Swedish subjects.
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Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1945)
- On January 17, 1945, during the Siege of Budapest by the Red Army, agents of SMERSH detained Wallenberg on suspicion of espionage, and he subsequently disappeared. Though there were rumors of sightings of him and of his execution, there are still no conclusive facts about what happened to him.
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Laurence Steinhardt (1892-1950)
- Of Jewish heritage himself, Steinhardt (right) helped many eminent intellectuals fleeing Europe to find refuge in Turkey, Palestine, and the US.
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Varian Fry (1907-1967)
- Varian Fry was an American journalist who volunteered in 1940 to head the Emergency Rescue Committee, a private American relief organization supported by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, in Vichy, France.
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Varian Fry (1907-1967)
- There, Fry and other volunteers used bribery, black-market funds, forged documents, clandestine mountain routes, and any other means possible to help rescue more than 2,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees.
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J. Rives Childs (1893-1987)
- During World War II, J. Rives Childs served as US consul general in Morocco. There he helped 1,200 Hungarian Jews obtain entry visas for Spanish Morocco.
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J. Rives Childs (1893-1987)
- Childs received the Medal of Freedom in 1946, and he was later US ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia.
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Harald Edelstam (1913-1989)
- Harald Edelstam was a Swedish diplomat in Norway, who helped protect and smuggle hundreds of Jews and Norwegian resistance fighters to Sweden. Later during the early '70s, he was stationed in Santiago, Chile, where he helped over 1,200 Chileans, hundreds of Cuban diplomats and civilians, and 67 Uruguayan and Bolivian refugees escape persecution by dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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Ho Feng-Shan (1901-1997)
- After Kristallnacht in 1938, Ho Feng-Shan, Chinese consul general in Vienna, issued thousands of visas to Austrian Jews. Risking his life and career, he disobeyed the instructions of his superiors.
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Lois Gunden (1915-2005)
- In 1941, 26-year-old Lois Gunden, an American French teacher from Goshen, Indiana, came to work with the Mennonite Central Committee in southern France. There she helped establish an orphanage and rescue mission for children. Gunden even rescued some children directly from Camp de Rivesaltes, an internment camp.
© Public Domain
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Waitstill Sharp (1902-1983) and Martha Sharp (1905-1999)
- Martha and Waitstill Sharp were American Unitarian aid workers who helped thousands of people escape Nazi persecution in 1939-1940. The married couple aided Jews, intellectuals, and children in Prague, Marseille, and Lisbon.
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Dimitar Peshev (1894-1973)
- Dimitar Peshev was the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria and Minister of Justice before World War II. He rebelled against the pro-Nazi cabinet and prevented the deportation of Bulgaria's 48,000 Jews.
© Public Domain
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Aleksander Ładoś (1891-1963)
- Aleksander Ładoś was a Polish politician and diplomat who headed the Legation of Poland to Switzerland from 1940 to 1945. Ładoś was a member and de facto leader of the Ładoś Group, also known as the Bernese Group, a secret group of Polish diplomats and Jewish organizations. Together they saved several hundred Jews by providing them with illegal Latin American, mostly Paraguayan, passports.
© Public Domain
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Jan Zwartendijk (1896-1976)
- Jan Zwartendijk was the director of the Philips factories in Lithuania and part-time acting consul of the Dutch government-in-exile during World War II. During his time as a diplomat, he supervised the writing of 2,345 visas for Curaçao to save Jews from the Holocaust. Sources: (History) (The Independent) (Smithsonian Magazine) (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
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Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1885-1954)
- As the Portuguese consul-general in Bordeaux, France, Aristides de Sousa Mendes defied the orders of António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo regime, issuing visas and passports to refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, including Jews.
© Public Domain
1 / 30 Fotos
Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1885-1954)
- Pictured is a life-saving visa issued by de Sousa Mendes on June 19, 1940, bearing the signature of his secretary, José Seabra.
© Public Domain
2 / 30 Fotos
Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986)
- Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat who served as vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Kaunas, Lithuania. He issued an estimated 6,000 transit visas, mainly to Polish Jews stranded in Lithuania.
© Public Domain
3 / 30 Fotos
Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986)
- It has been estimated that as many as 100,000 people alive today are the descendants of the recipients of Sugihara visas. Pictured is a Czechoslovak passport with a visa, which he granted in 1940.
© Public Domain
4 / 30 Fotos
Oskar Schindler (1908-1974)
- Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. He did so by hiring them for his enamelware and ammunition factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
© Getty Images
5 / 30 Fotos
Oskar Schindler (1908-1974)
- Schindler is the subject of the novel 'Schindler's Ark' (1982)and its Academy Award-winning film adaptation 'Schindler's List' (1993), which shows his extraordinary dedication to saving his Jewish employees.
© Getty Images
6 / 30 Fotos
Sir Nicholas Winton (1909-2015)
- Sir Nicholas Winton was a British stockbroker who organized the rescue of 669 Czech-Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia before war broke out.
© Getty Images
7 / 30 Fotos
Sir Nicholas Winton (1909-2015)
- Winton's story is told in the film 'One Life' (2024), which is based on the biography of the same name, written by his daughter Barbara Winton. He's pictured here in 2009 with one of the children evacuated to Britain.
© Getty Images
8 / 30 Fotos
Gino Bartali (1914-2000)
- One of the most beloved of Italian cyclists, Gino Bartali won the Tour de France in 1938 and 1948, and the Giro d'Italia twice, in 1936 and 1937.
© Getty Images
9 / 30 Fotos
Gino Bartali (1914-2000)
- Bartali also earned respect for his work in helping Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis during the Italian Social Republic. It even emerged in 2010 that Bartali had hidden a Jewish family in his cellar.
© Getty Images
10 / 30 Fotos
Irena Sendler (1910-2008)
- Polish nurse Irena Sendler, often referred to as "Jolanta," served as head of the children's department of Żegota Council to Aid Jews. Sendler is credited with smuggling 2,500 Jewish children out of Warsaw's ghetto.
© Getty Images
11 / 30 Fotos
Irena Sendler (1910-2008)
- Sendler would hide the children with Polish Catholic families, giving each one a Christian pseudonym and false identity papers. She wore a yellow Star of David throughout her activities, in solidarity with the Jews.
© Getty Images
12 / 30 Fotos
Carl Lutz (1895-1975)
- Carl Lutz served as the Swiss vice-consul in Budapest, Hungary, from 1942 until the end of World War II. The diplomat is credited with saving over 62,000 Jews in a very large-scale rescue operation.
© Getty Images
13 / 30 Fotos
Carl Lutz (1895-1975)
- Due to his actions, half of the Jewish population of Budapest survived the Holocaust. Pictured is a letter of protection issued by Lutz in 1944.
© Public Domain
14 / 30 Fotos
Laurence Steinhardt (1892-1950)
- As US ambassador to Turkey in 1942, Laurence Steinhardt played a significant role in Jewish-related refugee transit evacuations from Europe.
© Public Domain
15 / 30 Fotos
Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1945)
- Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish architect and diplomat, serving as Sweden's special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944. In just six months, Wallenberg saved tens of thousands of lives by redesigning Swedish protective papers, which identified Hungarian Jews as Swedish subjects.
© Getty Images
16 / 30 Fotos
Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1945)
- On January 17, 1945, during the Siege of Budapest by the Red Army, agents of SMERSH detained Wallenberg on suspicion of espionage, and he subsequently disappeared. Though there were rumors of sightings of him and of his execution, there are still no conclusive facts about what happened to him.
© Getty Images
17 / 30 Fotos
Laurence Steinhardt (1892-1950)
- Of Jewish heritage himself, Steinhardt (right) helped many eminent intellectuals fleeing Europe to find refuge in Turkey, Palestine, and the US.
© Getty Images
18 / 30 Fotos
Varian Fry (1907-1967)
- Varian Fry was an American journalist who volunteered in 1940 to head the Emergency Rescue Committee, a private American relief organization supported by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, in Vichy, France.
© Getty Images
19 / 30 Fotos
Varian Fry (1907-1967)
- There, Fry and other volunteers used bribery, black-market funds, forged documents, clandestine mountain routes, and any other means possible to help rescue more than 2,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees.
© Getty Images
20 / 30 Fotos
J. Rives Childs (1893-1987)
- During World War II, J. Rives Childs served as US consul general in Morocco. There he helped 1,200 Hungarian Jews obtain entry visas for Spanish Morocco.
© Public Domain
21 / 30 Fotos
J. Rives Childs (1893-1987)
- Childs received the Medal of Freedom in 1946, and he was later US ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia.
© Getty Images
22 / 30 Fotos
Harald Edelstam (1913-1989)
- Harald Edelstam was a Swedish diplomat in Norway, who helped protect and smuggle hundreds of Jews and Norwegian resistance fighters to Sweden. Later during the early '70s, he was stationed in Santiago, Chile, where he helped over 1,200 Chileans, hundreds of Cuban diplomats and civilians, and 67 Uruguayan and Bolivian refugees escape persecution by dictator Augusto Pinochet.
© Public Domain
23 / 30 Fotos
Ho Feng-Shan (1901-1997)
- After Kristallnacht in 1938, Ho Feng-Shan, Chinese consul general in Vienna, issued thousands of visas to Austrian Jews. Risking his life and career, he disobeyed the instructions of his superiors.
© Public Domain
24 / 30 Fotos
Lois Gunden (1915-2005)
- In 1941, 26-year-old Lois Gunden, an American French teacher from Goshen, Indiana, came to work with the Mennonite Central Committee in southern France. There she helped establish an orphanage and rescue mission for children. Gunden even rescued some children directly from Camp de Rivesaltes, an internment camp.
© Public Domain
25 / 30 Fotos
Waitstill Sharp (1902-1983) and Martha Sharp (1905-1999)
- Martha and Waitstill Sharp were American Unitarian aid workers who helped thousands of people escape Nazi persecution in 1939-1940. The married couple aided Jews, intellectuals, and children in Prague, Marseille, and Lisbon.
© Public Domain
26 / 30 Fotos
Dimitar Peshev (1894-1973)
- Dimitar Peshev was the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria and Minister of Justice before World War II. He rebelled against the pro-Nazi cabinet and prevented the deportation of Bulgaria's 48,000 Jews.
© Public Domain
27 / 30 Fotos
Aleksander Ładoś (1891-1963)
- Aleksander Ładoś was a Polish politician and diplomat who headed the Legation of Poland to Switzerland from 1940 to 1945. Ładoś was a member and de facto leader of the Ładoś Group, also known as the Bernese Group, a secret group of Polish diplomats and Jewish organizations. Together they saved several hundred Jews by providing them with illegal Latin American, mostly Paraguayan, passports.
© Public Domain
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Jan Zwartendijk (1896-1976)
- Jan Zwartendijk was the director of the Philips factories in Lithuania and part-time acting consul of the Dutch government-in-exile during World War II. During his time as a diplomat, he supervised the writing of 2,345 visas for Curaçao to save Jews from the Holocaust. Sources: (History) (The Independent) (Smithsonian Magazine) (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
© Public Domain
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Heroes of World War II: Thrilling stories of courage and sacrifice that saved lives
From Nicholas Winton to Raoul Wallenberg
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As persecution of Jews in Europe mounted in the years prior to and during World War II, many people desperately sought visas and other ways to escape the Nazi regime. With that, heroes emerged to stand up to the terror. Many fought quietly, like a Swiss diplomat who took advantage of Nazi officers' respect for paperwork, or the Polish nurse who smuggled thousands of Jewish kids from Warsaw's ghetto. And some of these heroes would survive the war; others, however, weren't as fortunate.
Click on to discover the brave individuals who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis.
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