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Ghanshyam Das Birla
Humanitarian & Peace
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Ghanshyam Das Birla

เค˜เคจเคถเฅเคฏเคพเคฎ เคฆเคพเคธ เคฌเคฟเคกเคผเคฒเคพ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1894 โ€“ 1983 (89 years old)

Magnat de l'industrie et philanthrope indien, mรฉcรจne principal du Mahatma Gandhi et du mouvement pour l'indรฉpendance, bรขtisseur du BITS Pilani.

London, United Kingdom
Vinoba Bhave
Humanitarian & Peace
6
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Vinoba Bhave

เคตเคฟเคจเคพเคฏเค• เคจเคฐเคนเคฐเคฟ เคญเคพเคตเฅ‡
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1895 โ€“ 1982 (87 years old)

Disciple spirituel du Mahatma Gandhi, apรดtre de la non-violence et fondateur du mouvement Bhoodan pour le don pacifique des terres.

Paunar, Maharashtra, India
รngel Sanz Briz
Humanitarian & Peace
6
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รngel Sanz Briz

รngel Sanz Briz
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain
28 September 1910 โ€“ 11 June 1980 (69 years old)

รngel Sanz Briz was a Spanish diplomat who served as Chargรฉ d'Affaires in Budapest during World War II. Appalled by the Holocaust unfolding around him, he exploited an archaic 1924 Spanish royal decree to issue protective passports to Hungarian Jews, multiplying Spanish-protected safe houses and saving more than 5,200 Jews from deportation to Auschwitz.

Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
Carl Lutz
Humanitarian & Peace
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Carl Lutz

Carl Lutz
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland
30 March 1895 โ€“ 12 February 1975 (79 years old)

Carl Lutz was a Swiss diplomat who served as Vice-Consul in Budapest from 1942 to 1945. Credited with leading the largest single civilian rescue operation of the Holocaust, Lutz issued Swiss protective letters (Schutzbriefe) and placed seventy-six residential buildings under Swiss diplomatic protection, saving more than 62,000 Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps.

Bern, Switzerland
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