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Janusz Korczak
Humanitarian & Peace
5
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Janusz Korczak

Henryk Goldszmit
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
22 July 1878 โ€“ c. 7 August 1942 (64 years old)

Janusz Korczak (pen name of Henryk Goldszmit) was a Polish-Jewish pediatrician, pioneering educator, and beloved children's author who established an egalitarian democratic children's republic at Dom Sierot orphanage in Warsaw. When the Nazis liquidated the Warsaw Ghetto in August 1942, Korczak steadfastly refused multiple offers of personal escape, choosing instead to march hand-in-hand with his 192 orphans into the gas chambers of Treblinka.

Treblinka / Warsaw, Poland
Ludwig Quidde
Humanitarian & Peace
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,040

Ludwig Quidde

Ludwig Quidde
๐ŸŒ Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
23 March 1858 โ€“ 4 March 1941 (82 years old)

Ludwig Quidde was a prominent German historian, pacifist, and politician who served as President of the German Peace Society (DFG) for fifteen years (1914โ€“1929). Famed for his daring 1894 satirical essay 'Caligula' attacking Kaiser Wilhelm II's militaristic megalomania, Quidde opposed German expansionism throughout WWI and shared the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize with Ferdinand Buisson before fleeing Nazi terror.

Geneva, Switzerland
Grace Abbott
Humanitarian & Peace
1
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Grace Abbott

Grace Abbott
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1878 โ€“ 1939 (60 years old)

Champion of immigrants' rights and child welfare who directed the Immigrants' Protective League, led the federal enforcement of the first federal child labor laws, and helped draft the historic Social Security Act of 1935.

Grand Island (Nebraska), United States
Christian Lous Lange
Humanitarian & Peace
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,020

Christian Lous Lange

Christian Lous Lange
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด Norway
17 September 1869 โ€“ 11 December 1938 (69 years old)

Christian Lous Lange was a Norwegian historian, educator, and political scientist who served as Secretary-General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) for a quarter-century (1909โ€“1933). The first secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Lange guided the IPU through World War I and authored the monumental 'Histoire de l'internationalisme', receiving the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize with Hjalmar Branting.

Oslo, Norway
Carl von Ossietzky
Humanitarian & Peace
0
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Carl von Ossietzky

Carl von Ossietzky
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
1889 โ€“ 1938 (48 years old)

German investigative journalist and fearless anti-Nazi editor of 'Die Weltbuhne' who exposed Germany's secret illegal rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.

Berlin (Niederschonhausen), Germany
Frank Billings Kellogg
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,110

Frank Billings Kellogg

Frank Billings Kellogg
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
22 December 1856 โ€“ 21 December 1937 (80 years old)

Frank Billings Kellogg was an American lawyer, diplomat, and US Secretary of State (1925โ€“1929) under President Calvin Coolidge. Working in partnership with French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, he authored the historic 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact (Pact of Paris), signed by sixty-two nations legally renouncing war as an instrument of national policy, for which he was awarded the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize.

Washington, D.C., United States
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,080

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
16 October 1863 โ€“ 17 March 1937 (73 years old)

Sir Austen Chamberlain was a British statesman who served as Foreign Secretary from 1924 to 1929. Renowned as the primary diplomatic architect of the 1925 Locarno Treaties, which reconciled postwar Germany with France and Britain and admitted Germany to the League of Nations, he was awarded the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Charles G. Dawes.

London, United Kingdom
Arthur Henderson
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,040

Arthur Henderson

Arthur Henderson
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
13 September 1863 โ€“ 20 October 1935 (72 years old)

Arthur Henderson was a Scottish iron moulder, trade union leader, and British Foreign Secretary (1929โ€“1931) who served as leader of the Labour Party across three terms. Appointed President of the World Disarmament Conference in Geneva in 1932, he struggled heroically for three years to achieve global arms reduction in the face of rising fascism, receiving the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize.

London, United Kingdom
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