Saturday, December 15, 2007

World War II Heroes and Veterans

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1793 Zoya [ Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya ]
1907 Rudneva [ Evgeniya Rudneva ]
2132 Zhukov [ Georgy Zhukov ]
3348 Pokryshkin [ Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin ]
11572 Schindler [ Oskar Schindler, rescuer of 1,200 Jewish people ]
19384 Winton [ Nicholas Winton, rescuer of 669 Jewish children ]
50413 Petrginz [ Petr Ginz, Jewish boy who died in Auschwitz concentration camp ]
Other war heroes
1834 Palach [ Jan Palach, Czech student who self-immolated in protest against Soviet occupation of his country ]
20164 JanzajÃc [ Jan ZajÃc, Czech student who self-immolated in protest against Soviet occupation of his country ]

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