Forgotten Heroes
Real people whose extraordinary courage history nearly forgot — 4 profiles
Antoni Wronecki
Master Mason / Carpenter • Poland • 1898–1985
Hid 32 Jewish families, 87 people, beneath the floor of a Masonic lodge for 742 days using Masonic symbols as a shield against the Gestapo.…
Tags: Freemasonry,Masonic,Poland,Warsaw,rescue,hidden
Jan Karski
Home Army Courier • Poland • 1914–2000
Smuggled himself into the Warsaw Ghetto and Belzec death camp, then told Roosevelt everything -- nothing changed.…
Tags: Poland,Holocaust,Roosevelt,Warsaw Ghetto,courier
Irena Sendler
Social Worker • Poland • 1910–2008
Smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto -- more than Oskar Schindler saved.…
Tags: Poland,children,Warsaw Ghetto,Zegota
Irena Gut Opdyke
Nurse • Poland • 1922–2003
Hid 12 Jewish people in the basement of the SS headquarters while working as a nurse for the German military.…
Tags: Poland,SS headquarters,nurse,rescue