6 accounts found for “execution”
Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki, Polish Secret Army / Home Army
In September 1940, Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki deliberately got himself arrested by the Nazis to be transported to Auschwitz, where he spent nearly th...
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...
Joachim Rønneberg and the six-man Gunnerside team, SOE/Kompani Linge
In February 1943, six Norwegian saboteurs trained by British SOE parachuted into the mountains of Telemark, skied for days in Arctic conditions to reach the Vem...
Glyndwr Michael ("Major William Martin"); Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu, XX Committee
In 1943, British intelligence took the body of a Welsh vagrant who had died of pneumonia, dressed him as a Royal Marine officer named "Major William Martin," lo...
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....
Raoul Wallenberg, First Secretary, Swedish Legation Budapest
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest in July 1944 with a brief to protect Hungarian Jews. He personally invented the Schutzpass protective pass...