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Biography of Germain Bazin (excerpt)
Germain René Michel Bazin (24 September 1901 – 2 May 1990) was a French art historian, curator at the Louvre Museum from 1951 to 1965. Life Germain Bazin was born in Suresnes on 24 September 1901.He studied art history at the University of Paris.
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Biography of Käthe Krauss (excerpt)
Katharina "Käthe" Anna Krauß (sometimes spelled Krauss; 29 November 1906 – 9 January 1970) was a German track and field athlete, who won three gold medals at the 1934 Women's World Games in London and a bronze medal in the 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, where she was also on the German 4 × 100 m relay team. ![]()
Biography of Yvonne Nèvejean (excerpt)
Yvonne Feyerick Nèvejean (1900 - 1987) was one of the leaders of an organisation that helped hide Jewish children in Nazi-occupied Belgium during World War II.She was instrumental in hiding about 4000 children, many with Catholic families and institutions.After the war she was honoured inside and outside Belgium.
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Biography of Olga Desmond (excerpt)
Olga Desmond (born Olga Sellin 2 November 1890 in Allenstein in East Prussia (now Olsztyn, Poland); died 2 August 1964 in Berlin) was a German dancer, actress, art model and living statue. Selected filmography 1915 : Seifenblasen 1915 : Nocturno 1917 : Postkarten-Modell : Wanda
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Biography of Taos Amrouche (excerpt)
Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche (born 4 March 1913 in Tunis, Tunisia; died 2 April 1976 in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, France) was an Algerian writer and singer.In 1947, she became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel. She was born to a family of Kabyle Roman Catholic converts, the only daughter in a family of six sons. ![]()
Biography of Maximilien Kolbe (excerpt)
Maximilian Maria Kolbe OFMConv (born Raymund Kolbe; Polish: Maksymilian Maria Kolbe; 1894–1941) was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
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Biography of Erika von Brockdorff (excerpt)
Erika von Brockdorff (née Schönfeldt) (29 April 1911 – 13 May 1943) was a German resistance fighter against the Nazi régime during the Second World War. Brockdorff was a member of what the Nazi authorities termed the Red Orchestra resistance movement. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Cartier (jeweller) (excerpt)
Pierre Camille Cartier was born March 10, 1878 and died October 27, 1964. Grandson of Louis-François Cartier, he is the founder of the London and New York branches of the Cartier house. Family Pierre is the son of Alfred Cartier (1841-1925) and the grandson of Louis-François Cartier (1819-1904).
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Biography of Unity Mitford (excerpt)
Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was a British socialite closely associated with Adolf Hitler. A staunch supporter of Nazism, fascism, and antisemitism, she was part of Hitler's inner circle. After World War II broke out, Mitford attempted suicide in Munich, sustaining severe brain damage.
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Biography of Pierre Bonny (excerpt)
Pierre Bonny (25 January 1895 – 26 December 1944) was a corrupt French police officer.As an inspector, he was the investigating officer in the 1923 Seznec case, and was accused of falsifying the evidence.He was once praised as one of the most talented police officers in the country, and helped to solve the notorious Stavisky financial scandal in 1934. ![]()
Biography of Doris Humphrey (excerpt)
Doris Batcheller Humphrey (October 17, 1895 – December 29, 1958) was an American dancer and choreographer of the early twentieth century.Along with her contemporaries Martha Graham and Katherine Dunham, Humphrey was one of the second generation modern dance pioneers who followed their forerunners – including Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. ![]()
Biography of Suzanne Jannin (excerpt)
Suzanne Henriette Jannin, also Suzanne Henriette Delvoye, (1912–1982) was a French dentist, a resistance fighter in World War II, and an air force pilot in Indochina.After receiving her military pilot's licence in 1948, she gave up dentistry to devote herself to aviation.
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Biography of Hans Beimler (communist) (excerpt)
Hans Beimler (2 July 1895 – 1 December 1936) was a trade unionist, Communist-Party official, deputy in the 1933 Reichstag, an outspoken opponent of the Nazis and a volunteer in the international brigades fighting for the Spanish Republic. Hans Beimler was granted national hero status in the German Democratic Republic, with military divisions, ships, factories, schools and streets named in his honour.
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Biography of María Bernaldo de Quirós (excerpt)
María Salud Bernaldo de Quirós (26 March 1898 – 26 September 1983) was the first woman in Spain to earn a pilot's licence, passing her test in early October 1928 and receiving the licence from the Escuela Nacional Aeronáutica (National Aeronautical School) on the following 24 November.
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Biography of Maud Allan (excerpt)
Maud Allan (born as either Beulah Maude Durrant or Ulah Maud Alma Durrant; 27 August 1873 – 7 October 1956) was a Canadian dancer, chiefly noted for her Dance of the Seven Veils. In World War I, she faced accusations of being a lesbian spy, for which she sued unsuccessfully for libel.
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Biography of Maurice Bardèche (excerpt)
Maurice Bardèche (1 October 1907 – 30 July 1998) was a French art critic and journalist, better known as one of the leading exponents of neo-fascism in post–World War II Europe. Bardèche was also the brother-in-law of the collaborationist novelist, poet and journalist Robert Brasillach, executed after the liberation of France in 1945.
Biography of Pierre Chateau-Jobert (excerpt)
Pierre Yvon Alexandre Jean Chateau-Jobert (alias Conan) is a senior officer of the French army, fighter of the Second World War (and as such, companion of the Liberation) and the wars of Indochina and Algeria, born in Morlaix on February 3, 1912, and died in Caumont-l'Éventé in Calvados on December 29, 2005 at the age of 93.
Biography of Julie Gibson (excerpt)
Julie Gibson (born Gladys Camille Soray; September 6, 1913 – October 2, 2019 (age 106)) was an American singer; radio, television, and film actress; and vocal artist and coach, who had a career in movies during the 1940s.Gibson, who retired from the industry in 1984, was known for her work opposite The Three Stooges. ![]()
Biography of Reginald Denny (actor) (excerpt)
Reginald Leigh Dugmore (20 November 1891 – 16 June 1967), known professionally as Reginald Denny, was an English actor, aviator, and UAV pioneer. Denny was a well-known actor in silent films, and with the advent of talkies he became a character actor.
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Biography of Simonne Ratel (excerpt)
Simonne Ratel (22 July 1900 – 20 November 1948) was a 20th-century French woman of letters. She was the winner of the 1932 edition of the prix Interallié. Works (selection) 1929: Trois parmi les autres 1930: Dialogues à une seule voix 1932: 0º Coktail 1932: Histoire du Poussin Chaussé, tale for children illustrated by Jacqueline Duché
Biography of Marcel Taillandier (excerpt)
Marcel Taillandier, born March 25, 1911 in Condat-en-Combraille in Puy-de-Dôme, and died July 11, 1944, in Saint-Martin-du-Touch, is the creator and host of one of the most important counter-espionage networks of the French Resistance during the Second World War: the Morhange Network. ![]()
Biography of Emily Hahn (excerpt)
Emily "Mickey" Hahn (January 14, 1905 – February 18, 1997) was an American journalist and author.Considered an early feminist and called "a forgotten American literary treasure" by The New Yorker magazine, she was the author of 54 books and more than 200 articles and short stories.
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Biography of Paulette Fink (excerpt)
Paulette Weill Oppert Fink (1911–2005) was a French-Jewish nurse and resistance worker during the Second World War. She later emigrated to the United States where she helped to raise money in support of the new State of Israel. An executive member of the National Women's Division of the United Jewish Appeal, she was elected chair in December 1960. ![]()
Biography of Gerda Taro (excerpt)
Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war.
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Biography of Gabriele Rohde (excerpt)
Gabriele Rohde (7 September 1904 – 5 April 1946) was a Danish League of Nations official in the 1930s and, during the Second World War, a member of the Danish Council (Det danske Råd) in London. She provided strong support in particular for Danish seafarers, creating a seamen's club in Newcastle.
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Biography of Hans Kammler (excerpt)
Hans Kammler (26 August 1901 – 1945 ) was an SS-Obergruppenführer responsible for Nazi civil engineering projects and its top secret weapons programmes. He oversaw the construction of various Nazi concentration camps before being put in charge of the V-2 rocket and jet programmes towards the end of World War II.
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Biography of Ruth Page (ballerina) (excerpt)
Ruth Page (March 22, 1899 – April 7, 1991) was an American ballerina and choreographer, who created innovative works on American themes. Born in Indianapolis in 1899, Ruth Page undertook professional studies with Jan Zalewski, Adolph Bolm, Enrico Cecchetti, Harald Kreutzberg and Mary Wigman.
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Biography of Serge Ravanel (excerpt)
Serge Ravanel, born Serge Asher on May 12, 1920 in Paris where he died on April 27, 2009, was a French resistance fighter. Awards Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor Companion of the Liberation, by decree of January 18, 1946 Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with palm
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Biography of Julian Bell (excerpt)
Julian Heward Bell (4 February 1908 – 18 July 1937) was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell (who was the elder sister of Virginia Woolf).The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett was his half-sister. ![]()
Biography of Zivia Lubetkin (excerpt)
Zivia Lubetkin (Polish: Cywia Lubetkin, nom de guerre: Celina; 9 November 1914–11 July 1978) was one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the only woman on the High Command of the resistance group Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ŻOB).
Biography of Carl Ebert (excerpt)
Carl Anton Charles Ebert (20 February 1887 – 14 May 1980), was an actor, stage director and arts administrator. Ebert's early career was as an actor, training under Max Reinhardt and becoming one of the leading actors in his native Germany during the 1920s.
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Biography of Jeannette Guyot (excerpt)
Jeannette Guyot (February 26, 1919 – April 10, 2016) was a French Resistance operative who went on to become one of the Second World War's most decorated women.She is one of only two women to hold the American Distinguished Service Cross obtained during the war.
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Biography of Marguerite Bervoets (excerpt)
Marguerite Bervoets, born in La Louvière, (6 March 1914 - 7 August 1944) was a Belgian resistance fighter during World War 2. On 8 August 1942 Marguerite and another resistance member, Cécile Detournay, went to the edge of Chièvres Airfield for the purpose of photographing newly installed anti-aircraft guns.
Biography of Paul Gadenne (excerpt)
Paul Gadenne, born in Armentières (Nord) on April 4, 1907 and died in Cambo-les-Bains (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) on May 1, 1956 (aged 49), is a French writer. Tuberculosis forced him in 1933 to interrupt his teaching career. He then spent long months at the Praz-Coutant sanatorium located near Sallanches in Haute-Savoie.
Biography of Harland G. Wood (excerpt)
Harland Goff Wood (September 2, 1907 – September 12, 1991) was an American biochemist notable for proving in 1935 that animals, humans and bacteria utilized carbon dioxide.Wood was a recipient of the National Medal of Science.Wood was on the President's Science Advisory Committee under Presidents Lyndon B.
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Biography of Robert Cami (excerpt)
Robert Cami, born January 1, 1900 in Bordeaux and died January 12, 1975 in Paris (or in Sermaise (Essonne) according to certain sources including INSEE), is a draftsman, engraver (burinist, etcher and wood engraver), engraver medals and French stamps. Although rarely said to be a painter, he was also so, notably through the important work on zinc which won him a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1937.
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Biography of Ery Bos (excerpt)
Ery Bos (October 3, 1908 - March 10, 2005) was a German dancer and film actress. She established herself as a star in the cinema of the Weimar Republic, but was forced to flee following the takeover of the Nazi Party due to her Jewish background.
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Biography of Johannes R. Becher (excerpt)
Johannes Robert Becher (22 May 1891 – 11 October 1958) was a German politician, novelist, and poet. He was affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) before World War II. At one time, he was part of the literary avant-garde, writing in an expressionist style.
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Biography of Lois Gunden (excerpt)
Lois Gunden (February 25, 1915-2005) was the fourth of five Americans to be recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem, the Shoah Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority of Israel.Gunden was born and raised in Goshen, Indiana.In 1941, when she was 26 years old, she was teaching English for the Mennonite Central Committee in southern France when the Nazi occupation began.
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Biography of Lena Christ (excerpt)
Lena Christ (née Magdalena Pichler; 30 October 1881 – 30 June 1920) was a German writer. In 1913 she wrote the book Lausdirndlgeschichten (naughty girl stories), also composed of memories from her childhood.Thoma criticized her for it and saw it as a rip-off of his Lausbubengeschichten (naughty boy stories).
Biography of Eric Knight (excerpt)
Eric Mowbray Knight (10 April 1897 – 15 January 1943) was an English novelist and screenwriter, who is mainly known for his 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home, which introduced the fictional collie Lassie. He took American citizenship in 1942 shortly before his death.
Biography of Pierrette Caillol (excerpt)
Pierrette Emmanuelle Caillol is a French actress, born in Marseille on July 17, 1898 and died in Nice on June 8, 1991. She is the sister of actress Paulette Ray (1902-1987). Filmography (selection) 1947 : Une mort sans importance d'Yvan Noé 1948 : Bagarres d'Henri Calef : Mme Leroux
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Biography of Minta Durfee (excerpt)
Araminta Estelle "Minta" Durfee (October 1, 1889 – September 9, 1975) was an American silent film actress from Los Angeles, California, possibly best known for her role in Mickey (1918). She met Roscoe Arbuckle when he was attempting to get started in theater, and the two married in August 1908.
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Biography of José Corti (excerpt)
José Corti is a book shop and publishing house located in Paris, France, and was founded in 1925. It is named after its founder, José Corticchiato (15 January (Wikipedia gives 14 January by mistake) 1895 – 25 December 1984). José Corticchiato started his business by publishing the work of his surrealist friends, including André Breton, Paul Éluard, and Louis Aragon.
Biography of Léon Bernard (excerpt)
Léon-Constant-Jean Bernard is a French actor born February 26, 1877 in the 1st arrondissement of Paris and died in the 5th arrondissement of Paris on November 20, 1935.
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Biography of Charlotte von Pazatka (excerpt)
Charlotte Margarethe von Pazatka-Lipinski, married Baluschek (November 18, 1878 in Berlin - April 28, 1969 there) was a German theater actress.
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Biography of Ludwig Rubiner (excerpt)
Ludwig Rubiner (12 June 1881 - 27 February 1920) was a German poet, literary critic and essayist, generally seen as a representative of the expressionist movement that originated in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century.His most important works include a manifesto entitled, "Der Dichter greift in die Politik" ("The poet engages in politics", 1912) and a stage-drama, "Die Gewaltlosen" ("Men of non-violence", 1919), which he dedicated to "dem Kameraden, meiner Frau Frida" (loosely, "My comrade wife Frida").
Biography of Francesco von Mendelssohn (excerpt)
Francesco von Mendelssohn (born Franz von Mendelssohn; 6 September 1901 – 22 September 1972) was a German cellist and art collector.He also became known during the 1920s as a stage actor and theater director.He acquired additional notability with a lifestyle that some found eccentric.
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Biography of Henriëtte Pimentel (excerpt)
Henriëtte Henriquez Pimentel (17 April 1876 – 17 September 1943) was a Dutch teacher and trained nurse who during the Second World War headed a crèche in Amsterdam which cared for small children while their parents were otherwise occupied.Together with Walter Süskind and Johan van Hulst, from around October 1942 she helped to save the lives of hundreds of Jewish infants by smuggling them into the homes of sympathetic host families.
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Biography of Yvonne Chollet (excerpt)
Yvonne Chollet (1897–1945) was a teacher in Vendôme, France, who surveilled the movement of German equipment on behalf of the French Resistance and reported her findings to Allied forces during World War II. Arrested by the Gestapo in May 1943, she was imprisoned at Blois, Orléans, Romainville, and Compiègne before being deported to the Nazi concentration camp near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel) in northern Germany, where she survived barely a year. |
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