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Ho Feng-Shan
Humanitarian & Peace
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Ho Feng-Shan

何鳳山 (He Fengshan)
🇨🇳 China
10 September 1901 – 28 September 1997 (96 years old)

Dr. Ho Feng-Shan was a Chinese diplomat who served as Consul-General of the Republic of China in Vienna from 1938 to 1940. In direct defiance of his ambassador's orders, Ho issued thousands of life-saving visas to Austrian Jews desperate to escape Nazi persecution following the Anschluss and Kristallnacht, allowing them to flee Europe to Shanghai and other destinations.

Yiyang, Hunan, China
Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)
Humanitarian & Peace
40
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Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)

Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
🇹🇷 Turkey
26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997 (87 years old)

Mother Teresa of Calcutta was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic religious sister who founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. Devoting her life to serving the 'poorest of the poor' in the slums of Calcutta, she established hospices for the destitute and dying, leprosy clinics, and orphanages worldwide, receiving the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize and canonization as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016.

Kolkata, West Bengal, India
James Pineo Grant
Humanitarian & Peace
32
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James Pineo Grant

James P. Grant
🇨🇳 China
1922 – 1995 (72 years old)

Directeur exécutif de l'UNICEF (1980-1995), père de la « Révolution pour la survie de l'enfant » qui sauva environ 25 millions d'enfants grâce aux vaccins et à la réhydratation orale.

Valhalla, New York, United States
Mahfoud Boucebci
Humanitarian & Peace
10
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Mahfoud Boucebci

محفوظ بوسبسي
🇩🇿 Algeria
1936 – 1993 (56 years old)

Pioneering psychiatrist and humanitarian who founded pediatric psychiatry in Algeria, campaigned for abandoned children and mothers, and was murdered outside his hospital clinic in 1993.

Algiers, Algeria
Helen Joseph
Humanitarian & Peace
37
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Helen Joseph

Helen Beatrice May Fennell
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1905 – 1992 (87 years old)

Courageous anti-apartheid leader who co-organized the 1956 Women's March and became the first person in South Africa placed under strict house arrest by the apartheid regime.

Johannesburg, South Africa
Giorgio Perlasca
Humanitarian & Peace
32
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Giorgio Perlasca

Giorgio Perlasca
🇮🇹 Italy
31 January 1910 – 15 August 1992 (82 years old)

Giorgio Perlasca was an Italian businessman who, trapped in Budapest during the winter of 1944–1945, posed as the Spanish consul-general to rescue more than 5,200 Hungarian Jews from the Arrow Cross death squads and Nazi extermination camps. He invented safe-conduct passes, hid families in Spanish-protected safe houses, and physically dragged Jews off cattle trains bound for Auschwitz.

Padua, Veneto, Italy
Colin W. Bell
Humanitarian & Peace
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Colin W. Bell

Colin Bell
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1903 – 1988 (85 years old)

Dirigeant humanitaire quaker anglo-américain, directeur de la Friends Ambulance Unit en Chine et secrétaire exécutif de l'AFSC pendant la guerre froide.

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States
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