Historical Archives & Public Figures

מרדכי אנילביץ'

Poland

c. 1919 – 8 May 1943 (~24 years old)

Courageous 24-year-old commander of the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB) who led the heroic 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the first urban armed mass insurrection against Nazi occupation in Europe.

Bunker at Miła 18, Warsaw Ghetto, Poland

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Hans Scholl

Hans Fritz Scholl

Germany

22 September 1918 – 22 February 1943 (24 years old)

German medical student and founder of the anti-Nazi White Rose resistance group who witnessed war crimes on the Eastern Front and rallied student resistance against Hitler, shouting 'Long live freedom!' before his execution.

Stadelheim Prison, Munich, Germany

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Sophie Scholl

Sophia Magdalena Scholl

Germany

9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943 (21 years old)

German student and anti-Nazi resistance fighter who co-led the nonviolent intellectual resistance group 'The White Rose' (Weiße Rose), executed by guillotine at age 21 after distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich.

Stadelheim Prison, Munich, Germany

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Matangini Hazra

মাতঙ্গিনী হাজরা

India

1870 – 1942 (71 years old)

Affectionately known as 'Gandhi Buri' (Old Lady Gandhi), 72-year-old freedom fighter who was shot dead holding the Indian flag aloft during the Quit India Movement.

Tamluk, India

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Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

Зоя Анатольевна Космодемьянская

Russia

1923 – 1941 (18 years old)

Eighteen-year-old Soviet partisan whose unbreakable defiance under Nazi torture made her the first female Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II.

Moscow, Russia

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Marcus Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr.

Jamaica

17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940 (52 years old)

Charismatic Jamaican political activist and publisher who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), pioneering mass Pan-African pride, Black economic sovereignty, and global anti-colonial self-reliance.

West Kensington, London, Great Britain

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Sulayman al-Baruni

سليمان الباروني

Libya

1872 – May 1, 1940 (68 years old)

Eminent Amazigh scholar, Ottoman parliamentary deputy, and revolutionary commander who mobilized the Nafusa Mountains against Italian colonialism and served as an executive of the Tripolitanian Republic.

Muscat, Oman

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Suleiman al-Barouni

سليمان الباروني

Libya

c. 1872 – 1940 (68 years old)

Prominent Amazigh Ibadi scholar, poet, and statesman from the Nafusa Mountains who led Libyan resistance against Italian colonialism and served as President of the Tripolitanian Republic.

Muscat, Oman

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Zaid Ouhmad

زايد أوحماد

Morocco

c. 1890 – 1936 (~46 years old)

Legendary Ait Atta warrior who refused the 1933 surrender of Bougafer, waging a solitary guerrilla war for three years against French colonial forces in the High Atlas mountains.

Errachidia Region, Morocco

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Tahar Haddad

الطاهر الحداد

Tunisia

1899 – 1935 (36 years old)

Visionary Tunisian Islamic reformer, trade unionist, and author of the groundbreaking 1930 treatise 'Our Woman in the Sharia and Society', which pioneered female emancipation in the modern Arab world.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Surya Sen

সূর্য সেন

Bangladesh

1894 – 1934 (39 years old)

Revered as 'Masterda', Bengali schoolteacher who masterminded the historic Chittagong Armoury Raid of 1930 and proclaimed a provisional independent government.

Chittagong, Bangladesh

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Ahmad Sharif al-Senussi

أحمد الشريف السنوسي

Libya

1873 – 1933 (60 years old)

Supreme leader of the Senussi order from 1902 to 1918 who mobilized the Bedouin tribes of Cyrenaica and the Sahara in armed resistance against the Italian colonial invasion in 1911.

Medina, Saudi Arabia

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Ahmad al-Sharif al-Senussi

أحمد الشريف السنوسي

Libya

c. 1873 – 1933 (60 years old)

Third supreme leader of the Senussi Sufi order who commanded broad North African and Saharan military resistance against French, British, and Italian colonial invasions.

Medina, Saudi Arabia

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Omar al-Mukhtar

عمر المختار

Libya

1858 – 1931 (73 years old)

Libyan Quranic teacher and legendary military strategist known as the 'Lion of the Desert', who led the armed Bedouin resistance against Italian colonial fascism for nearly twenty years.

Benghazi, Libya

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Prempeh I

Kwaku Dua III Asamu (Prempeh I)

Ghana

1870 – 1931 (60 years old)

Asantehene (King) of the Ashanti Empire who rejected British protectorate ultimatums, endured twenty-eight years of colonial exile in Sierra Leone and Seychelles to protect the sacred Golden Stool, and returned in triumph to Kumasi in 1924.

Kumasi (Ashanti Region), Ghana

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Ida B. Wells

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett

United States

16 July 1862 – 25 March 1931 (68 years old)

Courageous African American investigative journalist, educator, and early civil rights leader who exposed the epidemic of lynching in the American South and co-founded the NAACP.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

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