Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008) was a Russian novelist, historian and political prisoner. Being an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, he helped shed the light on Gulag labor camp prisons.
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Kathrine Switzer (1947 – ) was a writer, television commentator, and North-American athlete, known for being the first woman to run a marathon (the...
Norman Borlaug (1914 – 2009) was the agronomist who, with all of his hard work, managed to produce a new type of wheat that...
Stanisława Leszczyńska (1896 – 1974) is known as a woman who helped deliver around 3000 babies in Auschwitz concentration camp where the women called...