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"The White Mouse" began her work in WWII as a nurse, but transformed her role into a high-level officer trained in espionage and sabotage that led guerilla attacks on Nazi stations.

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Jewish Virtual Library

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German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories.

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United States Holocaust Museum - Holocaust Encyclopedia

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German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason and beheaded at age 21.

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Museum of Jewish Heritage

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She created fake documents to smuggle thousands of Jewish children out of ghettos.

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Life in a Jar - Irena Sendler Project

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Museum

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He was the only American to stay in Rwanda during the genocide. He saved about 400 people.

World Without Genocide at Mitchell Hamline School of Law

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Special Operations Executive paratrooper. She was one of 37 Jewish parachutists from Palestine who parachuted into Yugoslavia during the Second World War to assist in the rescue of Hungarian Jews.

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Jewish Women's Archive

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Though just a teenager, Kaminsky was the lab director for a secret Jewish resistance group. Their Parisian lab fabricated passports for children and families who were about to be deported to concentration camps.

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That National WWII Museum - New Orleans

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The Night Witches were an all-female brigade of Soviet pilots that dropped bombs on Nazis.

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History Education

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The famous magician was initially recruited to entertain British troops during WWII,  but somehow, he convinced British officials that his illusions could aid in the fight against Nazis—and they did.

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BBC

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A Jewish teacher, Goldschmidt was forced to leave her profession when Nazi law was enacted in 1933. She took advantage of loopholes to open a school and continue teaching Jewish children.

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UK Holocaust Map

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William was the nephew of Adolf Hitler, but he rejected his familial ties to the Nazi party. He begged the American president for the chance to join the U.S. military, eventually helping them fight the Nazis.

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The United States Navy Memorial

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The Japanese Diplomat to Lithuania, he wrote hundreds of visas enabling Jewish refugees to escape the Nazis

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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History Education

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She was only 14 when she joined the Dutch resistance during World War II, and only a couple of years older when she became one of its armed assassins. 

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History Education

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A teacher, he saved hundreds of Jewish children.

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New York Times (you should have access to this article once because we don't have a subscription)

History Education

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The only Jewish female prosecutor to deliver an opening statement at the Nuremberg Trials

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University of Southern California Shoah Foundation

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An Albanian Muslim who convinced his parents to hide two Jewish families. 

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Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

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They hid Jewish refugees and inspired residents in his village to follow their lead. Over 5,000 Jews were rescued.

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Pastor Andre Tocme & his wife Magda Tocme

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Pastor Andre Tocme & his wife Magda Tocme

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Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

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A Swedish businessman who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews with Swedish protection certificates and “safe houses.” 

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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She was the director of the Quaker nursing school in Switzerland. She organized her nurses and Swiss Quakers to smuggled Jews from France into Switzerland.

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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A British stockbroker who was able to bring 669 Jewish children to England.

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Sir Nicholas Winton Memorial Trust

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While working as a house manager at the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, he hid and protected 1,200 Hutu and Tutsi refugees (the Hotel Rwanda story).

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National Public Radio (NPR)

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A Senegalese military officer and a United Nations military observer during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. He is credited with saving many lives during his time in Rwanda through nearly continuous rescue missions at great peril to himself.

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African Studies Center Leiden, Netherlands

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He testified several times before the United States Congress, has lectured widely in academic settings, and has served as a consultant to a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations operating in Sudan.

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Sudan Research, Analysis, & Advocacy by Eric Reeves

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He was an Armenian journalist living in Turkey killed for publishing his views about the Armenian Genocide.

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Hrant Dink Foundation

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He was the Turkish governor who said no to genocide.  As death squads stalked the streets, Bey desperately petitioned Istanbul to spare his citizens, arguing that there was no Armenian resistance in the region. When that failed, he openly defied orders to arrange mass deportations, instead personally sheltering and helping any Armenians he could.

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Aurora Humanitarian Initiative

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He was best known for his role as the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Morgenthau was one of the most prominent Americans who spoke about the Armenian Genocide

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The Genocide Education Project

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He and four friends stayed behind to work at the abandoned hospital. In doing so, they saved hundreds of lives. Despite being only 28 and having had no formal training as a surgeon, Dr. Pilav carried out 3,500 successful operations during the siege of Srebenica. 

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Institute for War and Peace Reporting

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Sara Pecanac and her Muslim family fled the Bosnian War with the help of a Jewish family in Jerusalem. Fifty years earlier, during World War II, Sara’s family had saved the that same Jewish family from the Nazis in Sarajevo.

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Toronto Star

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Formed in 2014 during the Syrian Civil War, the majority of the volunteers' activity in Syria consists of medical evacuation, urban search and rescue in response to bombing, evacuation of civilians from danger areas, and essential service delivery.

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History Education