She was a chairperson of the Council for Aboriginal Rights. She fought inequality by pointing out the lack of logic and highlighting damages it inflicted on a society. She wrote letters, articles, gave interviews, held thousands of meetings all over the country.

A witness to the Holocaust, he was active in the “Żegota” Council to Aid Jews. A prisoner of Auschwitz, participant of the Warsaw Uprising, Bartoszewski was an advocate of the Polish-German reconciliation after the war had ended. In the subsequent years, he opposed the rebirth of anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish demonstrations. He opposed the dictatorship imposed on his homeland and the Stalinist ideology, for which he was incarcerated twice in the period 1946-1954.

He co-founded the Jewish Combat Organisation and – following the death of Mordechaj Anielewicz – became the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After the war, he consistently refused to support the new administration.

A 14-year-old declared a personal war on Hitler – she joined the underground. She was a liaison, distributor, interpreter of English, guide for the refugees. She participated in executions on traitors sentenced to death by the court of the Polish Underground State. Simultaneously, she cooperated with the “Żegota” Council to Aid Jews.

The islanders of Lesbos, Kos, Chios, Samos, Rhodes and Leros welcomed a majority of the 900,000 refugees who arrived in Europe in 2015. Before the governments admitted that the wave of immigrants is growing, the fishermen, medical doctors and local activists saved the lives of the immigrants and took them into their care, even though they themselves had been affected by the economic crisis for years.

Josephine and Marie. Both were Hutu, and both helped Tutsi. Journalist Wojciech Tochman wrote: “Tens of Rwandan men and women found time and energy to talk to me and tell me how the genocide touched them personally. […] for obvious reasons, I did not reveal their first or family names.” Over a dozen years after the civil war, it is still dangerous to talk about certain events.

He wanted to be a diplomat. The Second World War made it impossible for him to pursue his dream. Instead, Jan Kozielewski, aka Karski, became the most famous emissary between the Polish Underground State and the Polish Government in Exile. In the summer of 1942, Karski undertook his most important mission – to deliver to London information on the situation in the country, including materials which documented the extermination policy of the occupying power towards the Jews.

He coined the term “genocide” and took effective action to include it in the international law. In 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide, called the Lemkin’s Convention.

In Rwanda, she was dubbed the angel of the poor. The Nyamata mission had been the home of Antonia Locatelli since the 1970s. Back then, she was a member of the Congregationis Sororum Ospitalarium a Beatae Mariae. She founded and managed a school for girls 30 km from the Kigali, capital of the country.

He was given the order to participate in a massacre. He refused, and managed to prevent murders on site or death marches to the Syrian dessert of several thousand of Armenians, even if the resistance was short-lived.

Krzysztof Miller, a photographer, spent 25 years documenting transformations, revolutions, and above all wars taking place at the turn of the 21st century. He took pictures during the Round Table Talks in Poland and the events in the Balkans. He travelled back and forth to Afghanistan, Cambodia, the Republic of South Africa, Chechnya and Rwanda. One tragedy gave way to another.

“If this is the end, I want to hold that girl’s hand.” For the past 23 years David Nott, a Welsh surgeon, has been taking an unpaid leave and spending three months in the areas affected by conflicts or catastrophes. The aforementioned girl was being operated on during the anticipated air raids in the Gaza Strip.

“One evening in early December 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, I was sitting at the front of a bus, the coloured section. The Whites sat in the section intended for the Whites. More and more of them were boarding the bus, and in the end they occupied all the seats. In such cases we, the Blacks, had to give up our seats. But I did not budge. The white driver said: “We need the seats at the front.” I did not get up. I was sick of obeying the Whites’ orders.”

Witold Pilecki spent two years and nine months in Auschwitz. It was his own initiative. He used to send information on the functioning of the camp in reports addressed to the Home Army Headquarters. He created a conspiratorial network within the camp, capable of armed resistance.

The founder of the Memorial Society which documents and propagates knowledge on the repressions and crimes of the totalitarian regime in the USSR. A guardian of memory of the victims of the regime, he testified with his involvement to the existence of free Russia.

As a volunteer paramedic on a mission to the Middle East during World War I, he undertook an independent investigation into the murder of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. He took notes and photos which he then showed to the public upon his return, calling for the cessation of the slaughter.

During the interwar period, he worked as a chaplain at the Centre for the Blind in Laski near Warsaw. He was a forerunner of ecumenical approach – he studied Judaism and got engaged in inter-religious initiatives. During the Second World War, he cooperated with the “Żegota” Council to Aid Jews and the Front for the Rebirth of Poland. He was a chaplain of the Home Army Main Headquarters, wounded during the Warsaw Uprising. Towards the end of the 1960s Rev. Zieja got involved in the anti-communist opposition.