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Raoul Follereau
Passed away Dec 06, 1977

Raoul Follereau 🇫🇷 (Raoul Follereau)

French humanitarian and poet celebrated worldwide as the 'Apostle of the Lepers', who traveled two million miles across sixty countries fighting the stigma of leprosy and founded World Leprosy Day in 1954.

Paris, France 32 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Eisaku Satō
Passed away Jun 03, 1975

Eisaku Satō 🇯🇵 (佐藤 榮作)

Premier ministre du Japon, auteur des trois principes non nucléaires garantissant le refus des armes atomiques au Japon, prix Nobel de la paix 1974.

Suginami, Tokyo, Japan 37 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Carl Lutz
Passed away 12 February 1975

Carl Lutz 🇨🇭 (Carl Lutz)

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 34 views 🕯️ 1,480 candles
Richard Bartlett Gregg
Passed away Jan 27, 1974

Richard Bartlett Gregg 🇺🇸 (Richard B. Gregg)

Philosophe social américain, auteur de The Power of Non-Violence qui introduisit la théorie de la résistance non-violente auprès de Martin Luther King Jr.

Eugene, Oregon, United States 31 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Jeannette Pickering Rankin
Passed away May 18, 1973

Jeannette Pickering Rankin 🇺🇸 (Jeannette Rankin)

Première femme élue au Congrès des États-Unis (1916), militante suffragiste et pacifiste inébranlable, seule à voter contre l'entrée en guerre en 1917 et 1941.

Missoula, Montana, United States 36 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Dimitar Peshev
Passed away 20 February 1973

Dimitar Peshev 🇧🇬 (Димитър Йосифов Пешев)

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 34 views 🕯️ 1,180 candles
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Passed away Dec 23, 1972

Abraham Joshua Heschel 🇵🇱 (אברהם יהושע השל)

Rabbin, philosophe et théologien de stature mondiale, compagnon de lutte de Martin Luther King Jr. et figure morale de l'opposition à la guerre du Vietnam.

Flushing, Queens, New York, United States 34 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Victor George Heiser
Passed away Feb 27, 1972

Victor George Heiser 🇺🇸 (Victor G. Heiser)

Médecin de santé publique américain, directeur de la Fondation Rockefeller, qui vaccina des millions d'êtres humains contre la variole et la peste en Asie.

Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States 33 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Paul Grüninger
Passed away 22 February 1972

Paul Grüninger 🇨🇭 (Paul Grüninger)

Paul Grüninger 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, Grüninger falsified entry dates and documents to grant refugees legal status, sacrificing his career, pension, and reputation in poverty before posthumous rehabilitation.

St. Gallen, Switzerland 32 views 🕯️ 1,240 candles
Ralph Johnson Bunche
Passed away Dec 09, 1971

Ralph Johnson Bunche 🇺🇸 (Ralph Bunche)

Diplomate américain, médiateur de l'ONU au Proche-Orient et premier Afro-Américain à recevoir le prix Nobel de la paix en 1950.

Bronx, New York, United States 27 views 🕯️ 0 candles
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr
Passed away Jun 25, 1971

John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr 🇬🇧 (John Boyd Orr)

Médecin et biologiste écossais, premier directeur général de l'Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO), Nobel de la paix 1949.

Menmuir, Angus, United Kingdom 33 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Whitney Moore Young Jr.
Passed away Mar 11, 1971

Whitney Moore Young Jr. 🇺🇸 (Whitney M. Young Jr.)

Dirigeant historique de la National Urban League (1961-1971), conseiller des présidents Kennedy et Johnson, artisan de l'intégration économique et de la War on Poverty.

Hartsdale, New York, United States 30 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Alice Hamilton
Passed away Jun 20, 1970

Alice Hamilton 🇺🇸 (Alice Hamilton)

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 30 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Vera Mary Brittain
Passed away Mar 29, 1970

Vera Mary Brittain 🇬🇧 (Vera Brittain)

Écrivaine, infirmière volontaire et pacifiste britannique, auteure du chef-d'œuvre autobiographique Testament of Youth et dirigeante de la Peace Pledge Union.

Asiago War Cemetery, Veneto, Italy 27 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Thomas Merton
Passed away Dec 10, 1968

Thomas Merton 🇫🇷 (Thomas Merton)

Moine trappiste, poète et théologien américain, auteur mystique universel et précurseur du dialogue interreligieux pour la paix et la non-violence.

Trappist, Kentucky, United States 31 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Helen Adams Keller
Passed away Jun 01, 1968

Helen Adams Keller 🇺🇸 (Helen Keller)

Auteure et militante américaine sourde et aveugle, symbole universel du dépassement du handicap, défenseure acharnée des aveugles, du droit des femmes et de la paix.

Washington, D.C., United States 34 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Muriel Lester
Passed away Feb 11, 1968

Muriel Lester 🇬🇧 (Muriel Lester)

Réformatrice sociale et pacifiste britannique, fondatrice du centre communautaire Kingsley Hall dans l'East End londonien où logea Gandhi en 1931.

Manor Park, London, United Kingdom 38 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Sir Ralph Norman Angell Lane
Passed away 7 October 1967

Sir Ralph Norman Angell Lane 🇬🇧 (Ralph Norman Angell Lane)

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 38 views 🕯️ 1,080 candles
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