Pastor André Trocmé & Magda Trocmé, village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
The tiny Huguenot village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in the Auvergne region sheltered an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 Jewish and other refugees during the German occu...
Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski, Otriad Bielski, Naliboki Forest
Three Jewish brothers — Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski — fled to the Naliboki Forest in occupied Belarus in 1942 and organized a partisan group that ultimately s...
Irena Sendler ("Jolanta"), Polish Social Worker, Żegota operative
Operating as "Jolanta," Polish social worker Irena Sendler smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto in suitcases, crates, toolboxes, and under pi...
Jozef Gabčík & Jan Kubiš, SOE-trained Czech paratroopers
Reinhard Heydrich chaired the Wannsee Conference, architected the Holocaust, and was considered the most dangerous man in the Third Reich after Hitler. In May 1...
Sophie Scholl (b. May 9, 1921 – d. February 22, 1943) and Hans Scholl, White Rose
On February 18, 1943, Munich university student Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans were caught distributing anti-Nazi leaflets by shoving a stack off a balcony....