The Library

He rescued 669 children — and said almost nothing about it for fifty years.

She smuggled ~2,500 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto — and buried their names in jars.

She was 21 when she was executed for handing out leaflets.

He saved tens of thousands with paper he invented — then vanished into Soviet custody.

A pacifist pastor who concluded that faith demanded he act — and joined the plot against Hitler.

Tokyo said no — twice. He hand-wrote visas eighteen hours a day, and kept signing all the way to the train.

The only person known to volunteer for Auschwitz — to build a resistance inside it.

An American journalist with no training smuggled 2,000+ out of Vichy France — defying his own government.

He smuggled himself into the Warsaw Ghetto, briefed FDR — and wasn’t believed.

He signed visas until his hand gave out — thousands of them — then died penniless and disgraced.

He wasn’t even a diplomat — he ran the local Philips office. When every country said no, he wrote 2,345 ways out.

A burned-out nightclub promoter gave away almost everything he owned, talked his way onto a hospital ship — and turned his own rock bottom into clean water for millions.

He was in a jail cell the day his daughter was born — and years later sat before the U.S. Senate and admitted he had once been part of the problem.