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1. She was a journalist during Hitler's earlier days who wrote about the evils of the Nazi persecution of the Jews. She was outspoken, but few Americans would listen to her pleas for action.
2. She emigrated with her family from Frankfurt, Germany, in 1934 to Amsterdam to escape Nazi persecution, but in 1940 Germany invaded the Netherlands. In 1942 she and her family went into hiding when her sister was summoned for deportation. She died at the Bergen-Belsen camp of typhus along with her sister.
3. In 1935, this baby girl appreared on the cover of "Sun in the House", a Nazi family magazine. The six month old was presented as the "ideal" Aryan looking infant. Ironically, the girl was Jewish.
4. She was a Jewish high jumper who matched the German women's record. Even so, she was excluded from the 1936 German Olympic team.
5. She was known as the "bitch of Buchenwald." She was very cruel to prisoners and promiscuous with the guards. She committed suicide in 1967 while in prison.
6. She was a German born Jewish woman who converted to Catholicism. She was highly educated and began teaching at the German Institute for Scientific Pedagogy in 1932. When it was discovered that her parents were Jewish, she was dismissed and later was deported to Auschwitz in 1942, where she was known for comforting many inmates. She perished there in the gas chambers.
7. She was the head of the convent of St. Anthony in Poland. She hid many Jewish girls in the convent's orphanage. She was often able to ward off many inquiries about the girls from officials.
8. She was an "Aryan-looking" German Jew who worked with the Nazis to report other Jews who were living underground. In return for her cooperation, she and her parents were saved from deportation. She was feared and despised by other Jews.
9. She was a famous heroine of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943). She escaped through the sewers - and fought again in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. After the War she married Yitzhak Zuckerman, also a member of the resistance.
10. She was Hitler's mistress whom he married on April 29, 1945. The next day she committed suicide along with her new husband by taking potassium cyanide.
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