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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 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. ![]()
Biography of Yiannis Ritsos (excerpt)
Yiannis Ritsos (Greek: Γιάννης Ρίτσος; 1 May 1909 – 11 November 1990) was a Greek poet and communist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II. While he disliked being regarded as a political poet, he has been called "the great poet of the Greek left".
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.
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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 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.
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. ![]()
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 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. ![]()
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 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 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 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.
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Biography of Tatiana Markus (excerpt)
Tetyana Yosypivna Markus (also trans.as Tatiana, 21 September 1921 – 29 January 1943) was a member of the anti-Nazi underground in Kiev. Biography Markus was born in the Shtetl of Romny to a large Jewish family.A few years after her birth, her family moved to Kiev. ![]()
Biography of Carol Emshwiller (excerpt)
Carol Emshwiller (April 12, 1921 – February 2, 2019) was an American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K.Dick Award.Ursula K.Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction".
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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 Galina Petrova (excerpt)
Galina Petrova (Russian: Галина Петрова; 9 September 1920 – 4 December 1943) was a medic and Chief Petty Officer in the 386th Independent Naval Infantry Battalion of the Black Sea Fleet during the Second World War. She died during a bombing attack on 4 December 1943 less than a month after she was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin on 17 November 1943 for her bravery in the Kerch-Eltigen operation.
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Biography of Marija Bursać (excerpt)
Marija Bursać (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Бурсаћ; 2 August 1920 – 23 September 1943) was a member of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II in Yugoslavia and the first woman proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.Bursać was born to a Bosnian Serb farming family in the village of Kamenica, near Drvar.
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Biography of Joan McCracken (excerpt)
Joan Hume McCracken (December 31, 1917 – November 1, 1961) was an American dancer, actress, and comedian who became famous for her role as Sylvie ("The Girl Who Falls Down") in the original 1943 production of Oklahoma! She also was noted for her performances in the Broadway shows Bloomer Girl (1944), Billion Dollar Baby (1945) and Dance Me a Song (1950), and the films Hollywood Canteen (1945) and Good News (1947).
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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 Robert Fabre (excerpt)
Robert Fabre, born December 21, 1915 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue (Aveyron) and died December 23, 2006 in the same city, was a French pharmacist and politician. He was named the third man to have signed with François Mitterrand and Georges Marchais, as president of the Mouvement des radicals de gauche, the program of Union de la Gauche, on November 27, 1973.
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Biography of Camillo Berneri (excerpt)
Camillo Berneri (also known as Camillo da Lodi; May 20 (according to his Italian Wikipedia page), 1897, Lodi – May 5, 1937, Barcelona) was an Italian professor of philosophy, anarchist militant, propagandist and theorist. He was married to Giovanna Berneri, and was father of Marie-Louise Berneri and Giliana Berneri, all of whom were also anarchists.
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Biography of Élisabeth Boselli (excerpt)
Élisabeth Thérèse Marie Juliette Boselli (11 March 1914 – 25 November 2005), was a French military and civilian pilot. She was the first female fighter pilot to serve in the French Air Force, and held eight world records for distance, altitude and speed.
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
Biography of Jean de Milleret (excerpt)
Jean de Milleret, known as "Carnot" (but also "Marnac", "Martel", "Jacomy"), born March 19, 1908 in Montauban, died January 10, 1980 in Buenos Aires, is a French soldier and resistance fighter, historian and biographer.
Biography of Kata Pejnovic (excerpt)
Kata Pejnović, née Bogić (21 March 1899 – 1966), was a Yugoslav feminist and politician. Life Kata Pejnović was born on 21 March 1899 in the village of Smiljan in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to a poor Serbian family.
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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.
Biography of Hugh Cruttwell (excerpt)
Hugh Cruttwell (31 October 1918 – 24 August 2002) was an influential English teacher of drama and principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Hugh Percival Cruttwell was born in Singapore, but lived in England from the age of eight.He was educated at King's School, Bruton, in Somerset, and studied history at Hertford College, Oxford.
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. ![]()
Biography of Henry Cavendish (excerpt)
Sir Henry Cavendish (1550–1616) was the eldest son of the Tudor courtier William Cavendish, and Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c. 1527–1608), known as "Bess of Hardwick". He served in the Netherlands as a captain in 1578, and was the MP for Derbyshire five times, but did not participate greatly in politics.
Biography of Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (excerpt)
Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (5 June 1901 – 29 August 1941) was a French Navy officer and one of the major heroes of the French Resistance, said to be the "first martyr of Free France". Role in Occupied France D'Estienne d'Orves was codenamed "Jean-Pierre Girard".
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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.
Biography of René Gilson (excerpt)
René Gilson, born September 8, 1921 in Arras (Pas-de-Calais) and died June 6, 2018 in Lens (Pas-de-Calais)1, was a French film critic and director.
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Biography of Ivo Caprino (excerpt)
Ivo Caprino (17 February 1920 – 8 February 2001) was a Norwegian film director and writer, best known for his puppet films.His most noted film, Flåklypa Grand Prix ("Pinchcliffe Grand Prix"), was made in 1975. The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix In 1970, Caprino and his small team of collaborators, started work on a 25-minute TV special, which eventually became The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix.
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Biography of Eddie Vinson (excerpt)
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L.Vinson Jr., December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter.He was nicknamed Cleanhead after an incident in which his hair was accidentally destroyed by lye contained in a hair straightening product, necessitating shaving it off; enamoured of the look, Vinson maintained a shaved head thereafter.
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Biography of Roland Caillaux (excerpt)
Roland Raymond Ferdinand Caillaud (January 5, 1905 – December 3, 1977) – known professionally as Roland Caillaux, and sometimes using the pseudonym Roland Caipland – was a French actor and artist. He is known for acting in several French films in the 1920s and 1930s, and for producing and publishing homoerotic illustrations in the mid 20th century.
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 Jean Amila (excerpt)
Jean Amila (Paris, 24 November 1910 – 6 March 1995) was a French author and screenwriter who also wrote under the names John Amila, Jean Mekert, or Jean Meckert. He also published other popular novels under the pseudonyms of Édouard, Edmond or Guy Duret, Albert Duvivier, Mariodile and Marcel Pivert.
Biography of Georges Chevalier (artist) (excerpt)
Georges Chevalier, born July 12, 1894 in Ivry-sur-Seine, died in 1987, was a French artist, designer of glassware. He was notably artistic director at Baccarat. ![]()
Biography of Maria Kotarba (excerpt)
Maria Kotarba (4 September 1907 — 30 December 1956) was a courier in the Polish resistance movement, smuggling clandestine messages and supplies among the local partisan groups.She was arrested, tortured and interrogated by the Gestapo as a political prisoner before being imprisoned in Tarnów and then deported to Auschwitz on January 6, 1943.
Biography of Jacques Beauvallet (excerpt)
Jacques Beauvallet, born September 13, 1909 in Dieppe and died January 16, 2000 in Nancy, is a French general. Polytechnique graduate of 1929, he opted for the artillery weapon. Captain in Indochina during World War II, he was captured and tortured by the Japanese in 1945.
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Biography of Sonja Wigert (excerpt)
Sonja Wigert (11 November 1913 – 12 April 1980) was a Norwegian-Swedish actress. She appeared in 34 films between 1934 and 1960. She was a spy for Swedish intelligence during World War II. Ingrid Bolsø Berdal portrayed her in the film The Spy. ![]()
Biography of Jean Bertin (engineer) (excerpt)
Jean Henri Bertin (5 December 1917 (Wikipedia is incorrect) – 21 December 1975) was a French scientist, engineer and inventor. He was born in Druyes-les-Belles-Fontaines and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, both French communes. He is best known as the lead engineer for the French experimental Aérotrain mass transit system.
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Biography of M. Vasalis (excerpt)
M.Vasalis, pseudonym for Margaretha (Kiekie) Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans (13 February 1909 in The Hague – 16 October 1998 in Roden) was a Dutch poet and psychiatrist. The pseudonym 'Vasalis' is a Latinization of her last name 'Leenmans'.The 'M' does not stand for 'Maria' as is sometimes incorrectly reported.
Biography of Philippe Boegner (excerpt)
Philippe Boegner (January 7, 1910, Aouste-sur-Sye, Drôme (source for his birth time: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - October 14, 1991, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine) is a journalist, boss of French press and writer, who participated in the Resistance. He was successively the director of Marie Claire, Paris Soir and Paris Match.
Biography of Daniel Carasso (excerpt)
Daniel Carasso (December 16, 1905 – May 17, 2009) was a French American member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family and the son of Isaac Carasso, founder of the (now) multinational Danone. Carasso, son of Isaac Carasso, was born in Salonica, Ottoman Empire (modern Thessaloniki, Greece), where his family had lived for four hundred years following Spain's expulsion of its Jews. ![]()
Biography of Ruth Cidor-Citroën (excerpt)
Ruth Cidor-Citroën (born Franziska-Margarete Vallentin November 25, 1906 in Berlin; died February 26, 2002 in Jerusalem) was a German-Israeli artist.
Biography of Marie Kuderíková (excerpt)
Marie Kudeříková (also known as Maruška Kudeříková) (24 March 1921, Vnorovy, today Hodonín District, Czechoslovakia – 26 March 1943 Breslau, Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany, today Poland) was a student active in the Czech resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II.
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Biography of Pearl Primus (excerpt)
Pearl Eileen Primus (November 29, 1919 – October 29, 1994) was an American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist. Primus played an important role in the presentation of African dance to American audiences. Early in her career she saw the need to promote African dance as an art form worthy of study and performance.
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Biography of Luisa Ferida (excerpt)
Luisa Ferida (18 March 1914 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian stage and film actress. Career Born Luigia Manfrini Frané in Bologna, Ferida started as a stage actress.In 1935 she made her first appearance in film with a supporting role in La Freccia d'oro. |
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