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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 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 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 Ferdinand, Duke of Montpensier (excerpt)
Ferdinand d'Orléans, Duke of Montpensier (French: Ferdinand François Philippe Marie Laurent d'Orléans, Duc de Montpensier) (9 September 1884 – 30 January 1924) was a member of the House of Orléans and a Prince of France. Career The Duke lived in England for many years, until "his reported indiscretions with regard to his recollections of Queen Victoria made it somewhat uncomfortable for him when in London.
Biography of Clotilde von Derp (excerpt)
Clotilde Margarete Anna Edle von der Planitz (5 November 1892 – 11 January 1974), known professionally as Clotilde von Derp, was a German expressionist dancer, an early exponent of modern dance. Her career was spent essentially dancing together with her husband Alexander Sakharoff with whom she enjoyed a long-lasting relationship.
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 Lewis Grassic Gibbon (excerpt)
Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer. He was best known for his trilogy A Scots Quair, set in the north-east of Scotland in early years of the 20th century.
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 Anthony Caillot (excerpt)
Anthony Louis Léon Caillot, born March 14, 1908 in Valognes (Manche), died February 5, 1994 in Regnéville-sur-Mer (Manche), was a French Catholic bishop, titular bishop of Bononia and coadjutor of Évreux from 1962 to 1964 , then Bishop of Évreux from 1964 to 1972, and Bishop Emeritus of Évreux from 1972 to 1994.
Biography of Angèle Laval (excerpt)
The Raven affair is a French criminal case which has as its starting point a news item that occurred in Tulle. From 1917 to 1922, the inhabitants of the city were victims of a wave of anonymous letters signed "Tiger's Eye" and denouncing the actions of each other.
Biography of Aurora Bertrana (excerpt)
Aurora Bertrana i Salazar (October 29, 1892 in Girona – September 3, 1974 in Berga, Barcelona) was a Catalan cellist and writer, notable for her exotic stories and novels. Early years Born in Girona in 1892, she was the daughter of the modernist writer, Prudenci Bertrana.
Biography of Alexandre Ughetto (excerpt)
Alexandre Ughetto, born December 6, 1910 in Lauris in the Vaucluse, executed in Digne on January 24, 1930 at the age of 19, is a French murderer. He had been convicted of having, with the help of an accomplice named Mucha Stephan, known as Joseph Witkowski, aged sixteen, born in Poland on January 14, 1912, committed a quadruple murder on October 5, 1928 at the Courelys farm, located one thousand nine hundred meters from Valensole. »
Biography of Émilie Schindler (excerpt)
Emilie Schindler (née Pelzl; 22 October 1907 – 5 October 2001) was a Sudeten German-born woman who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II by employing them in his enamelware and munitions factories, providing them immunity from the Nazis.
Biography of Vera Leigh (excerpt)
Vera Leigh (17 March 1903 – 6 July 1944) was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive during World War II. Leigh was a member of the SOE's Donkeyman circuit and Inventor sub-circuit in occupied France until she was arrested by the Gestapo.
Biography of Erwin Anton Gutkind (excerpt)
Erwin Anton Gutkind (May 20, 1886, Berlin – 7 August 1968, Philadelphia), was a German-Jewish architect and city planner, who left Berlin in 1935 for Paris, London and then Philadelphia, where he became a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.
Biography of Sophie Maslow (excerpt)
Sophie Maslow (March 22, 1911 – June 25, 2006) was an American choreographer, modern dancer and teacher, and founding member of New Dance Group. She was a first cousin of the American sculptor Leonard Baskin. Born in New York City in 1911 by Russian American parents, Sophie Maslow began her dance training with Blanche Talmud at the Neighborhood Playhouse School.
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 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 Irena Bernásková (excerpt)
Irena "Inka" Bernášková (7 February 1904 – 26 August 1942) was a Czechoslovak journalist and resistance member who was active in the fight against the German occupation during World War II. She was the first Czech woman sentenced to death and executed by Nazis.
Biography of Maria Rentmeister (excerpt)
Maria Rentmeister (27 January 1905 – 10 May 1996) was a German political activist who became an anti-government resistance activist after 1933. She spent much of the time during the twelve Nazi years abroad or, later, in state detention. In 1945 she relocated to what now became the Soviet occupation zone (after October 1949 East Germany) where she became the first General Secretary of the politically important Democratic Women's League ("Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands" / DFD).
Biography of Pierre Bertaux (excerpt)
Pierre Bertaux, born October 8, 1907 in Lyon (Rhône) and died August 14, 1986 in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine), is a German scholar, French resistance fighter and politician. He is the author of a major thesis on Hölderlin in 1936. Member of several left-wing government cabinets, appointed Commissioner of the Republic for the Liberation of Toulouse, he was notably made Officer of the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre, and Companion of the Liberation.
Biography of Mona Louise Parsons (excerpt)
Mona Louise Parsons (February 17, 1901 – November 28, 1976) was a Canadian actress, nurse, and member of an informal Dutch resistance network in the Netherlands from 1940 to 1941 during the Nazi occupation. She became the only Canadian female civilian to be imprisoned by the Nazis and one of the first and few women to be tried by a Nazi military tribunal in the Netherlands.
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.
Biography of Agnes de Mille (excerpt)
Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer. Career De Mille arrived in New York in 1938 and later began her association with the fledgling American Ballet Theatre (then called the Ballet Theatre) in 1939.
Biography of Stanley Morison (excerpt)
Stanley Morison (6 May 1889 – 11 October 1967) was an influential British typographer, printing executive and historian of printing. Largely self-educated, he promoted higher standards in printing and an awareness of the best printing and typefaces of the past. From the 1920s Morison became an influential adviser to the British Monotype Corporation, advising them on type design.
Biography of Lothar Müthel (excerpt)
Lothar Müthel (né Lothar Max Lütcke; 18 February 1896 – 4 September 1964) was a German stage and film actor and director. Müthel was born in Berlin, where he attended the acting school of Max Reinhardt, Schauspielschule, Berlin. Following the Anchluss of Austria to Nazi Germany, Müthel was appointed as director of the Burgtheater in Vienna.
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 Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert (excerpt)
Joseph Jean de Goislard de Monsabert (Libourne 30 September 1887 – Dax, 13 June 1981), was a French general who served during the Second World War. Monument to the memory of General Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert dedicated on 8 July 1985, in the Place des Martyrs de la Résistance, Bordeaux, France
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 Richard Huelsenbeck (excerpt)
Carl Wilhelm Richard Hülsenbeck (23 April 1892 – 20 April 1974) was a German writer, poet, and psychoanalyst born in Frankenau, Hessen-Nassau. Huelsenbeck was a medical student on the eve of World War I. He was invalided out of the army and emigrated to Zürich, Switzerland in February 1916, where he fell in with the Cabaret Voltaire.
Biography of Paul Citroen (excerpt)
Roelof Paul Citroen (15 December 1896 – 13 March 1983) was a German-born Dutch artist, art educator and co-founder of the New Art Academy in Amsterdam. Among his best-known works are the photo-montage Metropolis and the 1949 Dutch postage stamps. Early life
Biography of Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (excerpt)
Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (11 July 1893, in Frankfurt-am-Main – 7 January 1965, in Allambie Heights, in Sydney) was a German-born Australian artist. His formative education was 1912–1914 at Debschitz art school in Munich. He studied at the Bauhaus from 1919–24 and remained working there until 1926 where, along with Kurt Schwerdtfeger, he further developed the Farblichtspiele ('coloured-light-plays'), which used a projection device to produced moving colours on a transparent screen accompanied by music composed by Hirschfeld Mack.
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 Isaac Babel (excerpt)
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (13 July (Gregorian calendar) 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories—stories from the life of Jewish gangsters from Odessa led by Benya Krik (prototype – Mishka Yaponchik).
Biography of August Momber (excerpt)
August Momber (born May 16, 1886 in Danzig, † May 17, 1969 in Karlsruhe) was a German actor and director. He was a student of Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Momber worked as a lecturer at the theater college in Leipzig, among others.
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.
Biography of Georges Béjot (excerpt)
Georges Stanislas Jean Béjot, born August 23, 1896 in Besançon and died July 25, 1987 in Reims, is auxiliary bishop of Besançon then of Reims and personality of social Catholicism.
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 Ferdinand Béghin (excerpt)
Ferdinand Béghin, born January 21, 1902 in Thumeries and died April 18, 1994 in Friborg (Switzerland), is a French industrialist and businessman, in the sugar, cardboard, paper, press and publishing.
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.
Biography of Fazil Küçük (excerpt)
Fazil Küçük (14 March 1906 – 15 January 1984) was a Turkish Cypriot politician who served as the first Vice President of the Republic of Cyprus.
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.
Biography of Pericle Patocchi (excerpt)
Pericle Patocchi, born March 11, 1911 in Lugano and died April 13, 1968 in Leukerbad, is a Swiss writer and teacher. Pericle Patocchi was born in Lugano, to a Swiss father and an Italian mother of Spanish origin. He was educated in Varese and Milan, but from 1926 he attended the College of Sion where he graduated.
Biography of Henri Adeline (excerpt)
Henri Adeline (born May 8, 1898 in Verdun - died May 1, 1971 in Châlons-sur-Marne) is a French general and resistance fighter. He fought in the ranks of the French army during the two world wars, and enlisted from 1943 in the maquis of Dordogne then, during the Liberation, fought in the southwest and against the German pockets of Royan and La Rochelle.
Biography of Julia Pirotte (excerpt)
Julia Pirotte (née Diament; 26 August 1907 – 25 July 2000) was a Polish photojournalist known for her work in Marseille during the Second World War when she documented the French Resistance, and for photographs taken in the aftermath of the Kielce Pogrom of 1946.
Biography of Marie-Louise Sondaz (excerpt)
Marie-Louise Sondaz, born December 31, 1889 in Saint-Marcellin (birth certificate n° 60, Marc Brun), died in 1981, was a French astrologer and author. She indicates in one of her books "I was born a quarter of an hour before noon". There is therefore a doubt about her time of birth, with 45 minutes of difference between her birth certificate and what she writes.
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 Pierre Fournier (cellist) (excerpt)
Pierre Léon Marie Fournier (24 June 1906 – 8 January 1986) was a French cellist who was called the "aristocrat of cellists" on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound. Biography He was born in Paris, the son of a French Army general.
Biography of Werner R. Heymann (excerpt)
Werner Richard Heymann (14 February 1896 – 30 May 1961), also known as Werner R. Heymann was a German-Jewish composer active in Germany and in Hollywood. When the theater impresario Max Reinhardt opened the satirical cabaret Sound And Smoke he became, with Friedrich Hollaender, one of its two main pianists.
Biography of Yvonne Vallée (excerpt)
Yvonne Vallée (February 21, 1899 – June 15, 1996) was a French actress and singer. Career Before their marriage, Yvonne Vallée was Chevalier's music hall dancing partner. She performed operetta often alongside Chevalier and was in the ensemble for the Paris debut of Belle of New York. |
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