Forgotten Heroes

The men and women whose courage history almost forgot. Click any card to read their full story.

Diplomat in Lithuania

Saved 6,000 Jewish refugees by issuing unauthorized transit visas by hand for 29 consecutive days.

Combat Medic, 77th Infantry Division

A conscientious objector who saved 75 men on Hacksaw Ridge without ever carrying a weapon.

Social worker and resistance member

Smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, recording their identities in buried jars.

Secretary and humanitarian

The woman who hid Anne Frank and her family, and preserved the diary that changed the world.

Stockbroker and humanitarian

Rescued 669 children from Czechoslovakia and kept it secret for 49 years.

SOE wireless operator in occupied France

The first female radio operator sent into occupied France, broadcasting from Paris for months until captured and executed at Dachau.

Underground operative and intelligence officer

The only person known to have voluntarily entered Auschwitz to gather intelligence and organize resistance.