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Mordechai Anielewicz led the Jewish resistance against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Vera Figner was a leading radical in 19th Century Russia who was imprisoned for her part in the assassination of Alexander II

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A major league baseball player, brilliant scholar and World War II spy

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The Purple Gang – Jewish Organized Crime

Its reign was brief but the Purple Gang made enough of an impression to have become suspects in everything from the St. Valentine Day's Massacre to the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby

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