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Madeleine Riffaud
Madeleine Riffaud

Madeleine Riffaud était un membre de la Résistance française qui a effectué des missions audacieuses contre les forces n...

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Witold Pilecki
Witold Pilecki

Witold Pilecki was a Polish Army officer who joined the conspiracy against the German and Soviet occupying forces in 193...

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Jürgen Stroop
Jürgen Stroop

Jürgen Stroop was an SS general (German: Gruppenführer). He took part in the occupation of the so-called Sudetenland in ...

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Cywia Lubetkin
Cywia Lubetkin

Cywia Lubetkin, nicknamed Celina, was a Polish Jew who became a symbol of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Before the war, sh...

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Zenon Malik
Zenon Malik

​​Zenon Malik was a Polish soldier and officer. During the occupation of Poland he joined the Home Army in Kraków and ga...

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Willi Graf
Willi Graf

Willi Graf was an devout Catholic and an active supporter of the White Rose. He was forced to serve as a medical orderly...

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Validio Mantovani
Validio Mantovani

Validio Mantovani was a factory worker and a member of the Milanese Gruppi di Azione Patriottica (Patriotic Action Group...

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Tadeusz Bieńkowicz
Tadeusz Bieńkowicz

​​Tadeusz Bieńkowicz was a member of the resistance and took part in one of the largest actions to free prisoners in occ...

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​​Stanisław Kolasiński​
​​Stanisław Kolasiński​

​​Stanisław Kolasiński was a soldier of the Polish Army. After the Polish defeat in 1939 he went to France to join the P...

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Sergio Kasman
Sergio Kasman

Sergio Kasman played a crucial part in the resistance, contributing to the liberation of political prisoners. His involv...

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Piet Meerburg
Piet Meerburg

Piet Meerbug was a member of the resistance in Amsterdam. He was the leader of a resistance group that helped to save hu...

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Kurt Huber
Kurt Huber

Kurt Huber was one of the few German professors who opposed the Nazi Regime. In December 1942, Huber joined the White Ro...

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Johan Snoek
Johan Snoek

Johan Snoek helped people in hiding. When he and his family were driven from their home by the Battle of Arnhem in Septe...

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Henryk Kosior
Henryk Kosior

​​Henryk Kosior fought in Polish Army in September 1939. During the Soviet occupation, he joined the resistance. He was ...

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Hans Scholl
Hans Scholl

​​Hans Scholl was the central figure of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance group in Munich. Scholl, together with f...

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Hans Leipelt
Hans Leipelt

Hans Leipelt was a student at Munich University. He received a copy of the sixth leaflet of the White Rose on the day th...

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Ferruccio Parri
Ferruccio Parri

Ferruccio Parri was a key figure of the Italian resistance movement. As the Deputy commander of the Volunteers of Freedo...

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Le Blitz de Portsmouth
Le Blitz de Portsmouth

Le Blitz de Portsmouth a tué ou blessé plus de 3 000 personnes et a comporté 67 grands raids de bombardement. On estime ...

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Portsmouth pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Portsmouth pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Portsmouth, petite ville de la côte sud de l'Angleterre, a joué un rôle crucial dans...

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Ernst Sillem
Ernst Sillem

When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940, Ernst Sillem was 16 years old. From the start, he tried to thw...

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Danuta Siedzikówna
Danuta Siedzikówna

Danuta Siedzikówna joined the Home Army when she was 15 years old and served as nurse. After the war, when the communist...

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Christoph Probst
Christoph Probst

Christoph Probst came from an unconventional family and was the only one of the White Rose students who had children. He...

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Carlo Travaglini
Carlo Travaglini

Carlo Travaglini was German on his mother’s side, and was an independent partisan who managed to save numerous Italian s...

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Boy Ecury
Boy Ecury

Boy Ecury from Aruba – a Caribbean island colonized by the Dutch – was studying in the Netherlands when the country was ...

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