People i think are great

120 Pins
·
12y
Irena Sendlerowa honored again by Poland, at age 97
Irena Sendler got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumber. She courageously smuggled babies in her tool box and carried larger children in her sack. She also trained her dog to bark when the Nazi soldiers were near, which muffled the sounds of the crying children. She helped save more than 2,500 children & was eventually caught & tortured. Sendler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize but was not selected. Al Gore won for his presentation on global warming.
10 People Who Saved Jews During World War Two - Listverse
Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish humanitarian who worked in Budapest, Hungary during World War II to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. Between July and December of 1944 he issued fake passports and housed several thousand Jews, saving an estimated 100,000 people from the Nazis. After the war, Wallenberg was captured and imprisoned by the Soviets, and died in prison in 1947...
Hattie McDaniel | Black Hollywood Series
Hattie McDaniel, Olivia de Havilland, and Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939).