Anne Frank

Anne Frank

female, deceased (1945)
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929 – early March 1945) was a Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four fr...

Robert Gildea

male, 57 years old
Robert Gildea (born 1952) is professor of modern French history at the University of Oxford and is the author of several influential books on 20th...

Marcel Carné

male, deceased (1996)
Marcel Carné was an important French film director. Born in Paris, France, he began his career in silent film as a trainee with director Jacques F...
Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset

female, deceased (1949)
Sigrid Undset was a Norwegian novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1928. Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved...
Etty Hillesum

Etty Hillesum

female, deceased (1943)
Ester "Etty" Hillesum (January 15, 1914 in Middelburg, The Netherlands-November 30, 1943 in Auschwitz, Poland) was a young Jewish writer whose...
Otto Abetz

Otto Abetz

male
Otto Abetz (May 26 1903 - May 5 1958) was the German ambassador to Vichy France during World War II. Abetz was born in Schwetzingen. He...
Albert Bedane

Albert Bedane

male, deceased (1980)
Albert Bedane (1893-1980) lived in Jersey during the German occupation during World War II, and provided shelter to a Jewish woman and others,...
Paul Eyschen

Paul Eyschen

male, deceased (1915)
Paul Eyschen was a Luxembourgian politician, statesman, jurist, and diplomat. He was the eighth Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for...
Max Manus

Max Manus

male, deceased (1996)
Max Manus DSO, MC (born December 9, 1914 in Bergen, died September 20, 1996) was a Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II. After fighting...
Albert Soboul

Albert Soboul

male, deceased (1982)
Albert Marius Soboul was a French historian of the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and of Napoleon. Born April 27, 1914 in Ammi-Moussa (Oran),...