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Four selfless heroes.
Without the defeat of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust would have been complete, and that defeat required the dedication and sacrifice of...
She was a truth-teller.
They seemed to creep out of the woodwork that last Sunday of April in 1945 – living skeletons, covered with lice, waving tiny Allied...
Disguised as a nurse.
The letter changed everything. Before that she was his mother, but afterwards she took on a new persona – the brave and daring young...
Forever never came.
They wanted to do a little big thing, something to make a difference in the fight for freedom. Giorgio Paglia and Cicci Vandone were just...
Right from under their noses.
He was only a toddler when his Jewish family made a daring attempt to escape the Nazis by crossing the Swiss border in 1942. They almost...
Just trying to do our part.
The D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 would see 160,000 men land on the beaches of Normandy, and planners knew that casualties would be...
A clever hero.
It was a dreadful time in Rome that October of 1943. Not only had Nazi troops taken over the city in September, but now Il Morbo di K had...
More than a nanny.
It was a time in Hungary when children worked as servants for wealthy families. Such was the case for 13-year-old Erzsebet (Elizabeth),...
Here it is!
You asked, and here it is! The Little Book of Heroes is available on Amazon! This little book is a compilation of favorite stories,...
Her famous Grandad.
She had great admiration for her Grandad, although he died when she was only two years old. He was a famous man, after all, a Nobel Prize...
An enduring source of hope.
It was an memorable time of life that spring and summer of 1944 for Clara Ambrus, a young Catholic girl from Budapest, only nineteen at...
No other choice.
Raoul Wallenberg was a hero. He is credited with saving the lives of up to 100,000 Hungarian Jews in the last year of WWII. And yet, he...
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