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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Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909 - 2012) was an Italian American neurologist who, along with her collaborator Stanley Cohen, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for...
Emmeline Pankhurst was born in Manchester in 1858. She was a political activist and leader of the British women's rights movement, "Women's Social and...
Liliana Segre is an Italian activist who was born in 1930 in Milan. She is mostly known for having survived the Holocaust as she...