Maximilian Kolbe
Maximilian Kolbe was sent to Auschwitz for hiding Jews during the Second World War. Maximilian Kolbe was arrested in Poland in February of 1941, and in May sent to the Auschwitz death camp.When he went to a place were Nazi guards selected 10 people to be starved to death in punishment, Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger. They wanted the bunker that he was in to be empty, so they gave him an injection of carbonic acid which is very deadly.
Irena Sendlerowa
Irena Sendler also known as Irena Sendlerowa was a life saving woman. She was a polish social worker and worked for the Warsaw health department. She successfully saved 2,500 kids and babies from the Nazi Concentration camps in 1942 and 1943. She gave the kids and babies fake identities and when she got them out of the camps she placed them in new polish families. She and others smuggled children by placing them in ambulances, taking them through underground passage ways, or putting them in boxes/suitcases. She was a miracle.
Adolfo Kaminsky
During World War II Adolfo Kaminsky forged passports for the people that were going to the concentration camps so they could say that they were not the people going to the concentration camps. At the age of seventeen Adolfo Kaminsky narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz and was living in Paris which was occupied with Nazis, making fake documents to hide in plain sight! At the age of 17 he began working for the French Resistance, specializing in identity documents. His forged papers saved the lives of thousands of Jews. His daughter was Sarah Kaminsky and later she wrote a book about her father's life.
Dr. Gisella Perl
Dr. Gisella Perl was a doctor that was sent to Auschwitz. She was jewish, and in Auschwitz she was the camp doctor. She was forced to tell the main doctor if any woman was pregnant. They tricked her into thinking that they were sending all these pregnant woman to places for more nutrition, but instead they were sending them to be slaughtered. When she figured out they were lying she gave the pregnant woman pills so that they would have their baby's at a later date. She saved a lot of ladies.