William Barak was an elder of the Wurundjeri people of southeastern Australia, whose portrait by Artur Loureiro hangs in the Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis in Porto. Barak used diplomacy, teaching and painting to help his people adapt to colonization on their own terms, leaving an important legacy of his culture.
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Türkan Saylan (1935 – 2009) was born in Istanbul and is one of the first female dermatologists in Turkey. Saylan fought against leprosy for...
Liliana Segre is an Italian activist who was born in 1930 in Milan. She is mostly known for having survived the Holocaust as she...
Eren Keskin (1959 – ) was born to a Kurdish father and a Circassian mother in the city of Bursa. Keskin is a prominent...
