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Dimitar Peshev
Humanitarian & Peace
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,180

Dimitar Peshev

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๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ Bulgaria
25 June 1894 โ€“ 20 February 1973 (78 years old)

Dimitar Peshev was the Deputy Speaker of the Bulgarian Parliament during World War II who led the courageous political rebellion that stopped the secret deportation of Bulgaria's entire Jewish population of 48,000 people to Nazi death camps in March 1943. Stripped of his parliamentary office for his defiance, his intervention saved every native Bulgarian Jew from the Holocaust.

Sofia, Bulgaria
Paul Grรผninger
Humanitarian & Peace
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,240

Paul Grรผninger

Paul Grรผninger
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland
27 October 1891 โ€“ 22 February 1972 (80 years old)

Paul Grรผninger was a Swiss police commander in the Canton of St. Gallen who saved approximately 3,600 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany and Austria following the 1938 Anschluss. Defying strict Swiss federal orders to close the border, Grรผninger falsified entry dates and documents to grant refugees legal status, sacrificing his career, pension, and reputation in poverty before posthumous rehabilitation.

St. Gallen, Switzerland
Alice Hamilton
Humanitarian & Peace
1
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Alice Hamilton

Alice Hamilton
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1869 โ€“ 1970 (101 years old)

American physician and humanitarian who founded the scientific field of industrial toxicology, discovered the deadly effects of industrial lead and carbon monoxide poisoning, and became the first female faculty member at Harvard University.

Hadlyme (Connecticut), United States
Sir Ralph Norman Angell Lane
Humanitarian & Peace
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,080

Sir Ralph Norman Angell Lane

Ralph Norman Angell Lane
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
26 December 1872 โ€“ 7 October 1967 (94 years old)

Sir Norman Angell was a British author, economist, and Member of Parliament whose 1909 book 'The Great Illusion' became an international publishing phenomenon translated into twenty-five languages. Demonstrating that modern global financial and commercial integration rendered military conquest economically ruinous for both victor and vanquished, he was awarded the 1933 Nobel Peace Prize.

London, United Kingdom
Albert Schweitzer
Humanitarian & Peace
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,380

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
14 January 1875 โ€“ 4 September 1965 (90 years old)

Albert Schweitzer was an Alsatian polymath, Lutheran theologian, virtuoso organist, and medical missionary who established the Lambarรฉnรฉ Hospital in equatorial Africa. Renowned for his moral philosophy of 'Reverence for Life' (Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben), he was awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize and devoted his Nobel funds to constructing a leper colony.

Lambarรฉnรฉ, Gabon
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