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Men of Peace
Martin Luther King
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"I have a dream"
In 1963, there was an important civil rights protest in Washington. He spoke to the people about his dream: freedom and equality for all Americans. He speech is famous all over the world.
About that, in 1964 he won the Nobel Prize for Peace and in 1968 his dream came true.
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Rosa Parks
In 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, she was on a bus on her way home from work. She refused to give her seat to a white man: about that the bus driver called the police. The police arrested her.
The Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott began 40.000 African Amercans boycotted public buses for over a year. The protest ended when racial segregation on buses stopped in 1956. This was the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in US.
Oskar Schindler
He was a German industrialist who became a hero of World War II when he saved hundreds of Jews from death in Nazi concentration camps.
His life
He was born in 1908 in Moravia. His father had a small factory. When Oskar finished school, he worked in the family business.
He married Emilie in 1928 and did a lot of different jobs, but he was never very successful. In 1938, the Czech police arrested him because he was working as a spy for the Nazi party. He joined the Nazi party in 1939.
After the German invasion, he bought a factory in Krakow which made cooking equipment. He called the factory "Emalia" and employed workers from the large Jewish community of the city.
In 1944, Schindler had to move his factory to Brunnlitz, he made a list of workers he needed for his new factory: there was 700 Jewish man, 300 women from his factory and 200 workers from another factory.
In this way he saved them from the Nazi concentration camps. The new factory produced arms for the Nazis, but them were useless.
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The Holocaust
Was the planned killing of certain groups of people in Nazi Germany from 1933 to the end of World War II, in 1945.
Eleven million men, women and children died during the Holocaust. Six million of them were Jews.