Title:
World War II Heroes: A Tribute

Description:
ATTENTION: All Neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial comments will be immediately deleted. Thanks for your cooperation. ----- Hannah Senesh was a Hungarian Jew, one of 37 Jews living in Palestine, now Israel, who were trained by the British army to parachute into Yugoslavia during the Second World War in order to help save the Jews of Hungary. Szenes was arrested at the Hungarian border, imprisoned and tortured, but she refused to reveal details of her mission, and was eventually tried and executed by firing squad. Vassili Zaitsev was a Soviet sniper during World War II, notable particularly for his activities between November 10 and December 17, 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad. He killed 225 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht and other Axis armies, including 11 enemy snipers. Roza Shanina was a Soviet sniper during World War II. She was responsible for 54 confirmed kills, including 12 enemy snipers, during the Battle of Vilnius. Shanina died in a battle near the khutor of Rikhau. Lidiya Gudovantseva was a soviet sniper during World War II with 76 confirmed kills Werner Vetter was a Nazi Party member who fell in love with a young Jewish girl named Edith Hahn and protected her during the war. Oskar Schindler was a Sudeten German industrialist credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, by having them work in his enamelware and ammunitions factories located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic. Wilm Hosenfeld was a German army officer who rose to the rank of captain by the end of the war. He helped, hid, or rescued several Poles, including Jews, in Nazi-occupied Poland. He is most remembered for saving Polish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman from death in the ruins of Warsaw. Hosenfeld was captured by the Soviets and sentenced to 25 years at hard labor. He died in Soviet captivity on August 13, 1952. Karl Plagge was a German officer and Nazi Party member who during World War II employed some 1,200 Jews—500 men, and the rest women and children—giving them a better chance to survive the nearly total annihilation of Lithuania's Jews that took place in 1941--1943. In 2005 he was bestowed the "Righteous Among the Nations" title by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. Irena Sendler was an activist of Polish Underground and Polish anti-Holocaust resistance in Warsaw, where she helped to save about 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by providing them false documents and hiding places in individual and group children houses out of the Ghetto. Arrested in 1943 by the Gestapo, she was severely tortured and sentenced to death. The Żegota saved her by bribing the German guards on the way to her execution. Officially, she was listed on public bulletin boards as among those executed. Even in hiding, she continued her work for the Jewish children. Jan Karski was a Polish World War II resistance fighter and scholar. In 1942 and 1943 Karski reported to the Polish government in exile and the Western Allies on the situation in Poland, especially the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and the extermination camps. After the war Karski was unable to return to communist-ruled Poland and made his home in the United States. Witold Pilecki was a soldier of the Second Polish Republic, the founder of the Secret Polish Army (Tajna Armia Polska) Polish resistance group and a member of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa). During World War II, he became the only known person to volunteer to be imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp. While there, he organized the resistance movement in the camp, and as early as 1940, informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz atrocities. He escaped in 1943 and took part in the Warsaw Uprising (August--October 1944). Pilecki was executed in 1948 by the communists. Henryk Sławik was a Polish politician, diplomat, and social worker who during World War II helped save 5,000 Hungarian and Polish Jews from Budapest by giving them false Polish passports. He was sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp where he was shot to death, probably in August 1944. Rudolf Weigl was a famous Polish biologist and inventor of the first effective vaccine for epidemic typhus. He founded the Weigl Institute in Lwów (now L'viv, Ukraine), where he did his vaccine-producing research. At the same time, he employed and protected Polish intellectuals, Jews and members of the Polish underground during the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany occupations in World War II, until the Institute was shut down when the Soviet Union returned in 1944.

Author:
myzaichev

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Ghetto, Hannah, Heroes, Oskar, Polish, Schindler, Senesh, underground, Uprising, Vassili, Vetter, Werner, WII, WWII, Zaitsev,