Nachum Remba sets up fake hospital to save Jews from deportation in Warsaw
Nachum Remba stood tall, always calm, always smiling. He came from a theatrical family where he developed a jokester personality, which with his dry sense of hu...
Category: snapshot biographies
Photographer Robert Doisneau
“The marvels of daily life are so exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.” Robert Doisneau had a humble spirit, a sh...
Irena Sendler, the woman who helped save 2,500 children from the Holocaust
“I give my child in your care, raise my child as if it were yours.” These words were written by the mother of a six year old Jewish girl Rami, who was smuggled ...
The short story of Odette Sansom
“Lise.” This was her codename. Her real name – Odette Sansom. Odette was born in France, but moved to Britain after marrying an Englishman. There they had...
Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg Biography Worn and weary, balding, with sad eyes, Raoul Wallenberg looked much older than his 31 years of age when in 1944 he was assigned the ...
The short story of Nathan Francis Mossell
His father was a thoughtful man of few words, a man who learned to read in night school, and who went into business for himself as a brick maker, where he was k...
Annette Kellerman, the first woman to wear a one-piece swimsuit
Biography of Annette Kellerman “My early physical misfortune has turned out to be the greatest blessing that could have come to me. Without it I should have mis...
The love of Oscar Wilde and Bosie
In 1891, Oscar Wilde fell in love with 21-year-old Oxford undergraduate Lord Alfred Douglas, or as friends affectionately called him, “Bosie.” Their...
The legend that was Mary Fields
She drank whiskey, swore often, and smoked handmade cigars. She wore pants under her skirt and a gun under her apron. At six feet tall and two hundred pounds, M...
WWII hero Nancy Wake
In look, Nancy Wake was glamorous; in personality, she was a fearless fighter. Rebellious in her way of being, she was born in New Zealand, but by 1940, had liv...