Heroes

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Madeleine Jarret de Verchères, Canadian heroine, born 3rd March 1678

Laura Secord, Canadian Heroine, born 13th September 1775

Corrie ten Boom, Dutch Resistance Worker, born 15th April 1892

Geertruida Wijsmuller, Dutch Resistance Fighter, born 21st April 1896

Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech Music Teacher, Pianist & Holocaust survivor, born 26th November 1903

Sabine Zlatin, Polish/French Nurse who helped Jewish children in WW2, born 13th January 1907
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Miep Gies hid Anne Frank & retrieved diary, born 15th February 1909
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Germaine Tillion, French Ethnologist & Resistance worker, born 30th May 1907
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Irena Sendler smuggled children from Warsaw ghetto, born 15th February 1910

Sophie Scholl, German Resistance worker, born 9th May 1921
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Aili Jõgi, Estonian Freedom Fighter, born 25th May 1931

Margaret Hassan, Murdered Irish-Iraqi Aid Worker, born 18th April 1945
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