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People

Biographies connect Holocaust history to the decisions, experiences and records of identifiable individuals.

7 entries

Documentation and resistance

Emanuel Ringelblum

Historian and founder of Oyneg Shabes.

Mordechai Anielewicz

Commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Abba Kovner

Vilna underground leader and partisan.

Rudolf Vrba

Auschwitz escapee and report author.

Children and rescue

Janusz Korczak

Educator who remained with his orphanage children.

Raoul Wallenberg

Swedish diplomat involved in Budapest rescue.

Irena Sendler

Żegota worker who helped rescue Jewish children.

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