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Carl Lutz
Humanitarian & Peace
33
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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
Dimitar Peshev
Humanitarian & Peace
33
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
31
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
29
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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
37
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,080

Sir Ralph Norman Angell Lane

Ralph Norman Angell Lane
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
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
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