Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler

female, 99 years old
Irena Sendler (also called "Irena Sendlerowa" in Polish language) (born 15 February 1910 in Warsaw). Polish social worker. During World War II she...
Emanuel Ringelblum

Emanuel Ringelblum

male, deceased (1944)
Emanuel Ringelblum was a Polish-Jewish historian, politician and social worker, known for his "Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto", "Notes on the...
Jan Karski

Jan Karski

male, deceased (2000)
Jan Karski, was a Polish World War II resistance fighter and scholar. He visited the Warsaw Ghetto after the summer 1942 deportations. Disguised as...
Hans Frank

Hans Frank

male, deceased (1946)
Hans Michael Frank (May 23, 1900 - October 16, 1946) was a German lawyer who worked for the Nazi party during the 1920s and 1930s and a senior...
John Hersey

John Hersey

male, deceased (1993)
John Richard Hersey was an American writer and journalist. Born in Tientsin, China, to missionaries Roscoe and Grace Baird Hersey, his family...
Mordechaj Anielewicz

Mordechaj Anielewicz

male, deceased (1943)
Mordechai Anielewicz, also known as ŻOB, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Born to a poor family in Wyszków near Warsaw, he joined and became a le...
Uri Orlev

Uri Orlev

male, 78 years old
Uri Orlev (born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski in 1931) is an award-winning Israeli children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin. Born in...
Marek Halter

Marek Halter

male
Marek Halter is a French-Jewish novelist. He was born in Poland in 1936. During World War II, he and his parents escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and...

Adam Czerniaków

male, deceased (1942)
Adam Czerniaków was a Polish-Jewish engineer and senator, born in Warsaw, Poland. He committed suicide in the Warsaw Ghetto on July 23, 1942. He s...
Adolf Berman

Adolf Berman

male, deceased (1978)
Adolf Berman was a Polish-Jewish psychologist, member of Poale Zion Left party, editor of Arbeter Cajtung, who held a leadership role in Żegota, t...