1193: Jeannie Rousseau de Clarens World War II Spy Born: 1 April 1919, Saint-Breuc, France Died: 23 August 2017, Montaigu, France Jeannie’s father was a World War I veteran and a politician in Paris. She graduated at the top of her class in 1939 and was known for being adept at languages. Soon after the…
1169: Hessy Levinsons Taft Jewish Woman Whose Baby Portrait was Used by the Nazis in Propaganda Work Born: 17 May 1934, Berlin, Germany Hessy’s parents were from Latvia but had moved to Germany a few years before Hessy was born. Her parents had dreams of being opera singers, but unfortunately once it was discovered that…
1098: Aloisia Veit Hitler’s Distant Cousin Who Became One of His Many Victims Born: 18 July 1891, Pontafel, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Possibly Present-day Villach, Austria if I’m Reading Google Maps Correctly) Died: 6 December 1940, Hartheim Euthenasia Center, Alkoven, Upper Austria (Present-day Alkoven, Austria) Aloisia was related to the dictator through his Schicklegruber side for those…
1097: Simone Veil It Takes a Special Person to Become an Immortal Born: 13 July 1927, Nice, France Died: 30 June 2017, Paris, France Simone was a lawyer, magistrate, and politician. She also became a champion of women’s rights (today, she is most remembered in France for pushing through and succeeding in seeing abortion legalized…
1073: Lya Graf Immortalized in a Photo in Which She is Sitting on JP Morgan’s Lap Born: c.1901-1913, Germany Died: 1941, Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Present-day Oswiecim, Poland) Original Name: Lia Schwartz Lya was born with a form of dwarfism. She was twenty-seven inches tall and wanted no part of being in the photos (which took…
1052: Ariadna Scriabina Poet, French Resistance Fighter and co-founder of the Armée Juive Born: 26 October 1905, Bogliasco, Italy Died: 22 July 1944. Toulouse, France Original Name: Regine-Ariane Scriabina Her Preferred Name: Sarah Knut Full Disclosure: The majority of easily accessible website articles about Ariadna are kind of sketchy and have lots of grammar/spelling mistakes….
“If he’d stayed, I’d have looked after him.” 905: Emilie Schindler Most Known for Being Oskar Schindler’s Wife Born: 22 October 1907, Alt Moletein, Republic of Czechoslovakia (Present-day Stary Maletin, Czech Republic) Died: 5 October 2001, Strausberg, Germany Emilie should be better known for helping to save over 1,200 Jews during The Shoah. Emilie was…
“I swear on this [prayer] book that wherever life will take me, under whatever circumstance, I shall always remain a good, true Jew.” 850: Gisella Perl Gynecologist and Prisoner in Auschwitz Concentration Camp Born: 1907, Maramarossziget, Hungary (Present-day Sighet Marmatiei, Maramureș, Romania) Died: 30 November 1988, Jerusalem, Israel Gisella’s father was a Rabbi, and Gisella…
“What I tell everybody is that you — any victim, any person hurt — you have the same power. You have the power to forgive. And what it does, forgiveness, has nothing to do with the perpetrator. It has everything to do with the way the victim feels.” 835: Eva Mozes Kor Shoah Survivor and…
719: Lela Karagianni Created a Greek Resistance Group During the Axis Occupation Born: 24 June 1898, Euboea, Kingdom of Greece (Present-day Euboea, Greece) Died: 8 September 1944, Haidari Concentration Camp, Athens, Greece Original Name: Eleni (Or Helen) Karagianni Lela was married and a mother of seven children. She forged documents, supplied information to the British,…