JANINE DE GREEF, aged 95
Along with all of her family she was a key member of the Comet Line, getting Allied airmen out of Belgium at great risk to herself.
DAVID DUSHMAN, aged 98
Fencing played a big part in his life. He was the man who liberated Auschwitz – and went on to coach the USSR fencing team in the Olympics.
BEPPE PIRODDI, aged 82
An Italian playboy in the 1960s he was part of a group known as The Four Musketeers. He had affairs with rich women and had celebrity friends, as long as connections with royals and the Mafia.
JANINE DE GREEF, aged 95
Along with all of her family she was a key member of the Comet Line, getting Allied airmen out of Belgium at great risk to herself.
DAVID DUSHMAN, aged 98
Fencing played a big part in his life. He was the man who liberated Auschwitz – and went on to coach the USSR fencing team in the Olympics.
BEPPE PIRODDI, aged 82
An Italian playboy in the 1960s he was part of a group known as The Four Musketeers. He had affairs with rich women and had celebrity friends, as long as connections with royals and the Mafia.
LILY SAFRA, aged 87
Born in South America, she married four times, becoming one of the world’s richest women and a major philantropist. But two of her husbands died in mysterious circumstances.
SIMONE SEGOUIN, aged 97
French Resistance partisan who carried out her work with a stolen bike and stolen gun, she was made famous by an American magazine and fought at the liberation of Paris
JUSTO GALLEGO, aged 96
A former Trappist monk he rebuilt a church destroyed in the Spanish Civil War – but he kept going and it became a cathedral, made of scrap
TRAUTE LAFRENZ, aged 103
A medical student, she joined the White Rose Movement, protesting about the Nazis. Betrayed, she survived the concentration camps to become a doctor and teacher.
HAANAH PICK GOSLAR, aged 93
She grew up in Amsterdam, a close friend of Anne Frank. They ended up in the same concentration camp but she survived to tell Anne’s story.
IDA NUDEL, aged 90
Born in the USSR of Jewish extraction she was a refusenik, campaigning to leave Russia. Imprisoned for her protests she was eventually exiled.
DAVID WISNIA, aged 94
A young Pole who was sent to Auschwitz his singing voice saved his life. He also had a love affair in the camp before escaping and joining the American Army. He eventually became a rabbi in the USA.
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