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BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...

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documentary ''

People's Century ''People's Century'' is a television documentary series examining the 20th century. It was a joint production of the BBC in the United Kingdom and PBS member station WGBH-TV, WGBH Boston in the United States. The series was first shown on BBC in ...

'' interviewed over one hundred persons who witnessed key events during the 20th century, including several centenarians who could recall the First World War and even earlier. Most interviewees were not well known, but may be physically recognisable from a famous photograph or image. Below are listed by nationality those persons who were interviewed, along with their occupations they were noted for, and the episodes in which they were featured.

Afghans

* Gul Haydar: guerrilla (1984) (''War of the Flea'') * Ahmed Shah Masoud: guerrilla leader (1980) (''War of the Flea'') * Madar Shawal: guerrilla courier (1982) (''War of the Flea'')

Americans

* Arthur Abeles: film distributor (1948) (''Great Escape'') * Harold Agnew: Los Alamos scientist (1945, 1962) (''Fallout'') * Martine Algier: Michigan teenager (''New Release'') * John Anderson: cinema usher (1927) (''Great Escape'') * Richard Ayers: law student (1969), then environmental lawyer (''Endangered Planet'') * Alexander Azar:

Fort Wayne Fort Wayne is a city in Allen County, Indiana, United States, and its county seat. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is west of the Ohio border and south of the Michigan border. The city's population was 263,886 at the 2020 United S ...

hamburger advertiser (''Picture Power'') * Bill Bailey: Telegraph boy, later unemployed, later US Navy worker (''Breadline'') * Carl Bagge: railway company lawyer (1963), later coal company lobbyist (1977) (''Endangered Planet'') * Kathy Bergstrom: Los Angeles teacher (1970s) (''Fast Forward'') * Benjamin Berger: father of murdered Israeli weightlifter,

David Mark Berger David Mark Berger (; May 24, 1944 – September 6, 1972) was an American and Israeli Olympic weightlifter, and one of the 11 Israeli Olympians taken hostage and killed by the Palestinian group Black September during the Munich massacre at ...

(''Picture Power'') * Dorothy Berger: mother of murdered Israeli weightlifter,

(''Picture Power'') * Paul Boatin: Ford production worker (1932) (''On the Line'') * Bill Braga:

New Jersey New Jersey is a U.S. state, state located in both the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the urban area, heavily urbanized Northeas ...

resident (1956) (''Boomtime'') * Georgette Braga:

resident (1956) (''Boomtime'') * Evelyn Brauckmiller: shipyard worker (1943) (''Total War'') * Shorty Brauckmiller: shipyard worker (1943) (''Total War'') * Beryl Bristow: (born 1896) (''Age of Hope'') * Berlyn Brixner: US Army cameraman (1945) (''Fallout'') * Art Buckner:

Kaiser Steel Kaiser Steel was a steel company and integrated steel mill near Fontana, California. Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser founded the company on December 1, 1941, and workers fired up the plant's first blast furnace, named "Big Bess" after Kaiser's ...

steelworker, later unemployed (''Fast Forward'') * Marjorie Brandt: Fort Wayne television viewer (''Picture Power'') * Tela Burt: World War I African-American soldier (''Killing Fields'') * Dennis Byas:

steelworker, later financial controller (''Fast Forward'') * Jacqui Ceballos:

National Organization for Women The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. It ...

organiser (1970) (''Half the People'') * Amy Coen:

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

student (1969), later family planning adviser (''Half the People'') * Red Cole: Ford production worker (''On the Line'') * Margaret Colombo: Philco production worker (1930) (''On the Line'') * Erv Dasher: Ford production worker (1922) (''On the Line'') * John Deangelo: Ford production worker (''On the Line'') * Elizabeth Dobynes: Fort Wayne television viewer (''Picture Power'') * Betty DuBrul:

Levittown Levittown is the name of several large suburban housing developments created in the United States (including one in Puerto Rico) by William J. Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons. Built after World War II for returning white veterans and thei ...

resident (1953) (''Boomtime'') * Anilu Elias: mother (''Half the People'') *

Mike Eruzione Michael Anthony "Rizzo" Eruzione (, , born October 25, 1954) is an American former ice hockey player. He is best known as the captain of the 1980 Winter Olympics United States men's national ice hockey team, United States national team that defe ...

: Captain, United States ice hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics (''Fast Forward'') * Anna Freund:

New York Yankees The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the Boroughs of New York City, New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Am ...

supporter (1930) (''Sporting Fever'') * Manny Fried: trade union organiser (''Brave New World'') *

Eddie Futch Eddie Futch (August 9, 1911 – October 10, 2001) was an American boxing trainer. Among the fighters he trained are Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, and Trevor Berbick, four of the five men to defeat Muhammad Ali. Futch also trained Riddick ...

: boxing coach (''Sporting Fever'') * Lois Gibbs:

Love Canal Love Canal was a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, United States, infamous as the location of a landfill that became the site of an environmental disaster discovered in 1977. Decades of dumping toxic chemicals killed residents and harm ...

activist (1977) (''Endangered Planet'') * Nellie Gillenson: emigrant (''Age of Hope'') * Tina Grate: Los Angeles mother (''Fast Forward'') * Ernest Green: Little Rock schoolboy (1950s) (''Skin Deep'') *

David Hackworth Colonel David Haskell Hackworth (November 11, 1930 – May 4, 2005) was a United States Army officer and journalist, who was highly decorated in both the Korean War and Vietnam War. Hackworth is known for his role in the formation and command of ...

: US army colonel (1966) (''War of the Flea'') * Gail Halverson: US Air Force lieutenant and " Candy Bomber" (''Brave New World'') *

Lement Harris Lement Upham "Lem" Harris (March 1, 1904 – 21 September 2002) was a member of the American Communist Party. Biography Lement U. Harris, known to his friends as "Lem," was the son of John Francis Harris (c. 1875–1941), the founder of ...

: journalist (1932) (''Breadline'') *

Denis Hayes Denis Allen Hayes (born August 29, 1944) is an environmental advocate and an advocate for solar power. He rose to prominence in 1970 as the coordinator for the first Earth Day. Hayes founded the Earth Day Network and expanded it to more tha ...

Earth Day Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally through earthday.org (formerly Earth Day Network) includin ...

organiser (1970) (''Endangered Planet'') * Frankie Henry: Tennessee State University student (1960) (''Skin Deep'') *

Don Hewitt Donald Shepard Hewitt (December 14, 1922 – August 19, 2009) was an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating the CBS television news magazine ''60 Minutes'' in 1968, which at the time of his death was the longes ...

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainme ...

director (''Picture Power'') * James Hill: Oak Ridge scientist (1945) (''Fallout'') * Tom Jelley: Ford production worker (''On the Line'') * Jeff Jones: Weatherman activist (1970) (''New Release'') * Sheldon Johnson: US Army soldier (1945) and Saint George, Utah resident (''Fallout'') * Lloyd Kiff: ornithologist (''Endangered Planet'') * Bernadette Lafayette: civil rights activist (1960) (''Skin Deep'') * Thomas Larkin: Stockbroker (''Breadline'') * Abe Lass: Nickelodeon attendee (1911) (''Great Escape'') * James Lewis: army doctor (1944) (''Living Longer'') * Joe Liguori: spectator of Dempsey match (''Sporting Fever'') * Cy Locke: US armed forces projectionist (1945) (''Great Escape'') *

James Lovell James Arthur Lovell Jr. ( ; born March 25, 1928) is an American retired astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot and mechanical engineer. In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8, he became, with Frank Borman and William Anders, one of the fi ...

Apollo 8 Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Sphere of influence (astrodynamics), Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times ...

astronaut (''Endangered Planet'') *

Floyd Mann Floyd Mann (August 20, 1920 - January 12, 1996) was an American law enforcement official, who served as Director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety between 1959 and 1963. He is best known for his interactions with the Freedom Riders who p ...

: Alabama policeman (1961) (''Skin Deep'') * David Moore: Ford foundery worker (1932) and trade unionist (''On the Line'') * Mancel Milligan: forester, later

Tennessee Valley Authority The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned electric utility corporation in the United States. TVA's service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolin ...

worker (''Breadline'') * John Morton-Finney: (born 1889) civil rights activist (''Age of Hope'') * Robert Nathan: economics student (''Breadline'') * Edwin Nerger: Fort Wayne priest (''Picture Power'') * Wally Neilsen:

Marshall Aid The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion (equivalent to $ in ) in economic recovery pr ...

organiser (1948) (''Boomtime'') * Charlie Nusser: Communist supporter (1934) (''Red Flag'') * Chuck O'Donahue: smelter worker (''Endangered Planet'') * Caryn Pace:

Long Island Long Island is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York (state), New York state, extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It constitutes a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land are ...

resident (1956) (''Boomtime'') * Colleen Parro:

Texas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...

housewife (1947) (''Half the People'') * Albert Powis: World War I marine (''Killing Fields'') * Barbara "Dusty" Roads: flight attendant (''Half the People'') * William Robertson: US Army lieutenant (1945) (''Brave New World'') * Terry Ross: Coto de Caza resident (1990s) (''Fast Forward'') * Vivian Rothstein:

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university, research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland, California, Oakland, the system is co ...

student (1965), later civil rights campaigner (''New Release'') * F. Sherwood Rowland: Stanford University academic (''Endangered Planet'') * Deborah Runkle: polio sufferer (''Living Longer'') * Rusty Sachs: US Marine pilot (1966) (''New Release'') * Tom Saffer: US marine (''Fallout'') * Yetta Sperling: emigrant (''Age of Hope'') *

Peter Staley Peter Staley (born January 9, 1961) is an American political activist, known primarily for his work in HIV/AIDS activism. As an early and influential member of ACT UP, New York, he founded both the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the educationa ...

: AIDS activist (1989) (''Living Longer'') *

Helen Stephens Helen Herring Stephens (February 3, 1918 – January 17, 1994) was an American athlete and a double Olympic champion in 1936. Biography Stephens, nicknamed the "Fulton Flash" after her birthplace, Fulton, Missouri, was a strong athlete in spr ...

: sprinter at Olympics (''Sporting Fever'') * Sharon Stern: polio sufferer (''Living Longer'') * George Stith: cotton sharecropper (1935) (''Breadline'') * Loye Stoops: farmer, Dustbowl evacuee (''Breadline'') * Jim Sullivan: Ford production worker (1938) and trade unionist (''On the Line'') * Bill Sweinler: Mosinee schoolboy (1950) (''Brave New World'') * John Tekkaman: Swedish immigrant (''Breadline'') * Ron Thelin: Californian boy scout, later

hippy A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the mid-1960s to early 1970s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States and spread to different countries around the w ...

(''New Release'') * C T Vivien: Baptist minister (1965) (''Skin Deep'') * Lorena Weeks:

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg ...

telephone operator (1949) (''Half the People'') * Bill Werber:

player (1929) (''Sporting Fever'') * Zekozy Williams: Montgomery housemaid (1965) (''Skin Deep'') * Earl Young: diplomat (1968) (''War of the Flea'') * Jim Zwerg: Fisk University student and

freedom rider Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions '' Morgan v. Virginia' ...

(1961) (''Skin Deep'')

Australians

Edward Smout Sergeant Edward David "Ted" Smout OAM (5 January 1898 – 22 June 2004) was an Australian soldier in the First World War. He was Australia's 6th last surviving World War I veteran. Smout served in the army as a stretcher bearer. He was notably ...

: World War I medic (''Killing Fields'') * Cec Starr: cricket supporter (''Sporting Fever'')

Austrians

* Norbert Lopper: Viennese Jew, later worker at

Auschwitz Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschw ...

(''Master Race'')

Belgians

* Yvonne Mouffe: child during

Great Depression The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and ...

(''Breadline'') * Pierre Rondas:

Louvain Leuven (, , ), also called Louvain (, , ), is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipality itself comprises the sub-municipalities of ...

refugee (1940) (''Total War'')

Belarusians

* Sergei Butsko: (born 1896) villager (''Age of Hope'') * Serafima Schibko: villager (''Total War'')

Bosnians

* Fikret Alic: Bosnian Muslim detained at

Trnopolje camp The Trnopolje camp was an internment camp established by Republika Srpska military and police authorities in the village of Trnopolje near Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the first months of the Bosnian War. Also variously ter ...

(''Fast Forward'') * Tomka Miric: Bosnian Serb (''Fast Forward'')

British

* Sid Bailey:

British Union of Fascists The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a British fascist political party formed in 1932 by Oswald Mosley. Mosley changed its name to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists in 1936 and, in 1937, to the British Union. In 1939, f ...

member (''Breadline'') * Majorie Cave: TB sufferer (''Living Longer'') * John Cracknell:

Surrey County Cricket Club Surrey County Cricket Club (Surrey CCC) is a first-class club in county cricket, one of eighteen in the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Surrey, including areas that now form South Londo ...

supporter (1922) (''Sporting Fever'') * Burt Calver:

supporter (1922) (''Sporting Fever'') * Jenny Cole: London teenager (''New Release'') * Iris Davis: biscuit maker (1932) (''On the Line'') * Les Ellis: TB sufferer (''Living Longer'') * Sally Doganis:

Aldermaston Marches The Aldermaston marches were anti-nuclear weapons demonstrations in the 1950s and 1960s, taking place on Easter weekend between the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in Berkshire, England, and London, over a distance of fifty-t ...

participant (1958) (''Fallout'') * Hayden Evans: pressed steel worker, trip hammer operator (1934) (''On the Line'') * Elizabeth Finn: film viewer (1912) (''Great Escape'') * Conrad Frost: television viewer (1930s) (''Picture Power'') * Sidney Garner:

West Ham United Football Club West Ham United Football Club is a professional football club based in Stratford, East London, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The club plays at the London Stadium, having moved from their f ...

football supporter (1923) (''Sporting Fever'') * Lillian Gillen: crane driver (1942) (''Half the People'') * Kathleen Green: Welsh film viewer (1925) (''Great Escape'') * Edmund Frow: Ford UK production worker (''On the Line'') * Elizabeth Finn: mother (1939) (''Total War'') * Walter Hare: soldier (''Killing Fields'', ''Lost Peace'') *

Karen Harrison Karen Harrison (16 November 1960 – May 2011) was the first woman in Britain to be appointed as a train driver, during which time she was an active trade unionist and political campaigner. Early years Karen Harrison, the daughter of a custom ...

: first female

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Comm ...

train driver (1979) (''Half the People'') * Eva Hart: ''

Titanic RMS ''Titanic'' was a British ocean liner that sank in the early hours of 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers a ...

'' survivor (''Age of Hope'') * Jennifer Hart:

League of Nations The League of Nations (LN or LoN; , SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920), Paris Peace ...

Union member (''Lost Peace'') * Charles Hill: Vulcan engineering apprentice (''On the Line'') * Donald Hodge: child who witnessed 1899 (''Age of Hope'', ''Fast Forward'') * Reg Howard: Salford apprentice mechanic (1960) (''New Release'') * John Hunter:civil defence volunteer (1960) (''Fallout'') * Gertrude Jarrett: (born 1890)

suffragette A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members ...

(''Age of Hope'') * Ray Jordan: Coventry resident (1965) (''Boomtime'') * Rita Kaye: cinema pianist (''Great Escape'') * Carol Kemp: London teenager (''New Release'') * Betty Lawrence:

Plymouth Plymouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England. It is located on Devon's south coast between the rivers River Plym, Plym and River Tamar, Tamar, about southwest of Exeter and ...

midwifery student (1941) (''Total War'') * Ernie Lambert: Sutherland Football Club supporter (''Sporting Fever'') * Cecil Lewis: World War I pilot (''Killing Fields'') * Mike Losban: Manchester teenager (''New Release'') * Billy McShane: Jarrow shipbuilder, later

Jarrow Crusade The Jarrow March of 5–31 October 1936, also known as the Jarrow Crusade, was an organised protest against the unemployment and poverty suffered in the English town of Jarrow during the 1930s. Around 200 men, or "Crusaders" as they preferred to ...

marcher (''Breadline'') * Robert Mitchell: member of British Olympic

water polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...

(1936) (''Sporting Fever'') * Walter Moran: Decca factory worker (1936) (''On the Line'') * Sid Newman:

resident (''Total War'') * Donald Newton: music shop manager (1963) (''New Release'') * Geoff Nugent: member of '' The Undertakers'' (''New Release'') * Billy O'Donnell:

Liverpool Football Club Liverpool Football Club is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English football. Founded in ...

supporter (1922) (''Sporting Fever'') * Olga Penrose: RSPCA volunteer (1967) (''Endangered Planet'') * Daphne Richards: bus driver (1970) (''Half the People'') * Amy Sears: (born 1892) witnessed

Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in January 1901. Her reign of 63 year ...

(''Age of Hope'') * Con Shiels: Jarrow shipbuilder, later

marcher (''Breadline'') * Lord Soper: pacifist campaigner (''Lost Peace'') *

Mary Stott Mary Stott (born Charlotte Mary Waddington) (18 July 1907 – 16 September 2002) was a British feminist and journalist. She was editor of ''The Guardian'' newspaper's women's page between 1957 and 1972. Charlotte Mary Waddington was born in Le ...

: Leicester voter (1929), then journalist (1950) (''Half the People'') * Norman Tennant: World War I artillerist (''Killing Fields'') *

Jonathan Tod Vice Admiral Sir Jonathan James Richard Tod Order of the Bath, KCB Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 26 March 1939) is a former Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief Fleet, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fleet. Naval career Educated Go ...

: Royal Navy pilot (1967) (''Endangered Planet'') *

David Triesman David Maxim Triesman, Baron Triesman (born 30 October 1943) is a British politician, merchant banker and former trade union leader. Triesman is a Labour member of the House of Lords. Triesman previously sat as a Labour peer until resigning th ...

Essex University The University of Essex is a public research university in Essex, England. Established by royal charter in 1965, it is one of the original plate glass universities. The university comprises three campuses in the county, in Southend-on-Sea and ...

student protest leader (''New Release'') * Ena Turnbull: London cinema pianist (''Great Escape'') * Wendy Vause: television viewer (1950s) (''Picture Power'') * Minnie Way: Glasgow striker b1895 (''Age of Hope'') * Joyce Wheedon: Ford machinist (1968) (''Half the People'') * George Williams: London film viewer (''Great Escape'') * Macinlay Wooden: soldier (1918), then

Kansas Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named a ...

farmer (''Lost Peace'') * Harry Young: Communist supporter (1917) (''Red Flag'')

Canadians

* Robert Hunter: Greenpeace President (1975) (''Endangered Planet'') *

Maurice Strong Maurice Frederick Strong, (April 29, 1929 – November 27, 2015) was a Canadian oil and mineral businessman and a diplomat who served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.E Masood (2015) Maurice Strong, Nature 528(7583), 480. Strong ...

: Stockholm Conference chairman (1972) (''Endangered Planet'')

Chileans

* Justo Ballesteros: copper miner (''Breadline'') * Claudina Montano Diaz: nitrates worker (''Breadline'')

Chinese

* Shao Ailing: Shanghai school head (1966) (''Great Leap'') * Hu Benxu: Sichuan peasant farmer (1930, 1958) (''Great Leap'') * Zhang Baoqing: Beijing

Red Guard The Red Guards () were a mass, student-led, paramilitary social movement mobilized by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 until their abolition in 1968, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.Teiwes According to a ...

(1966) (''Great Leap'') * Ho Bo: photographer (1949) (''Great Leap'') * Ren Fugin: Beijing street committee official (1954) (''Great Leap'') * Zeng Guodong: Tinjin district party secretary (1954, 1967) (''Great Leap'') * Jin Jingzhi: Shanghai resident (1935) (''Great Leap'') * He Jinhua: Henan steelworker (1958) (''Great Leap'') * Zhu Meichu: street singer (1980s) (''Fast Forward'') * Luo Shifa: Sichuan party official (1950, 1960) (''Great Leap'') * Jiao Shouyun: Beijing

(1966) (''Great Leap'') * Lian Tianyun: Henan steelworker (1958) (''Great Leap'') * Guo Jing Tong: (born 1890) witnessed Chinese revolution in 1911 (''Age of Hope'') * Tong Xiangling: Shanghai opera singer (1966) (''Great Leap'') * Tan Xianyao: Shanghai factory worker (''Fast Forward'') * Guao Xiuying: Beijing literacy teacher (1955) (''Great Leap'') * Quian Xuhui: Yunan migrant factory worker (''Fast Forward'') * Ren Yangcheng: Henan canal worker (1960) (''Great Leap'') * Wang Yong: Shanghai stockbroker (''Fast Forward'') * Qi Youyi: Beijing factory worker (1954, 1970) (''Great Leap'')

Cubans

* Arsenio Garcia: guerrilla (1956) (''War of the Flea'') * Alberto Leon: guerrilla (1959) (''War of the Flea'')

Czechs

* Josef Beldar: Czech civil defence (1938) (''Lost Peace'') * Bohumir Kriz: WHO smallpox team member (''Living Longer'') * Anna Masaryka: granddaughter of

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Tomáš () is a Czech name, Czech and Slovak name, Slovak given name, equivalent to the name Thomas (name), Thomas. Tomáš is also a surname (feminine: Tomášová). Notable people with the name include: Given name Sport *Tomáš Berdych (born 198 ...

(1918) (''Lost Peace'') * Petr Miller: metal worker (''People Power'') * Gertrud Peitsch: Sudeten German resident (1938) (''Lost Peace'') * Jiri Stursa: schoolboy (1918) (''Lost Peace'')

Dutch

* Rita Hendriks:

Dolle Mina Dolle Mina (Mad Mina) was a Dutch feminist group founded in December 1969 that campaigned for equal rights for women. It was named after an early Dutch feminist, Wilhelmina Drucker. It was a left-wing radical feminist activist group that aimed to ...

activist (1970) (''Half the People'')

Egyptians

* Fathia El Assal:

Cairo Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, L ...

writer (1969) (''God Fights Back'') * Ali Abdel Hamid:

teacher (1979) (''God Fights Back'') * Mahmoud:

plasterer (1978) (''God Fights Back'') * Yasser Tawfiq:

preacher (1980) (''God Fights Back'')

French

* Raymond Abescat: (born 1891) Paris Exhibition attendee (''Age of Hope'') * Marcel Batreau: World War I and II soldier (''Killing Fields'', ''Lost Peace'') * Maurice Bourgeois: (born 1896) schoolboy (1905) (''Age of Hope'') * Alice Clousier: (born 1894) Paris Exhibition attendee (''Age of Hope'') * Etienne Crouy Chanel: aide to

Édouard Daladier Édouard Daladier (; 18 June 1884 – 10 October 1970) was a French Radical Party (France), Radical-Socialist (centre-left) politician, who was the Prime Minister of France in 1933, 1934 and again from 1938 to 1940. he signed the Munich Agreeme ...

(''Lost Peace'') * Jean Dubertret:

Douai Douai ( , , ; ; ; formerly spelled Douay or Doway in English) is a city in the Nord (French department), Nord département in northern France. It is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture of the department. Located on the river Scarpe (rive ...

resident (1949) (''Boomtime'') * Monette Gaunt: Paris resident (''Boomtime'') * Romain Goupil: May 1968 protestor (''New Release'') * Arthur Herbaux: Renault production worker (1932) (''On the Line'') * Raymond Jolivet: Bourges farmboy (1949) (''Boomtime'') * Evelyne Langey: Paris resident (1946) (''Boomtime'') * Michel Lequenne: French resistance member (1943) (''Great Escape'') * Roger Lorelliere: Renault worker and May 1968 protestor (''New Release'') * Jeanne Plouvin: witnessed first Trans-channel flight in 1909 (''Age of Hope'') * Zenaide Provins: Renault production worker (''On the Line'') * Hermine Venot-Focke: World War I nurse (''Killing Fields'')

Georgians

* Endar Shengelai: film director (''People Power'')

Germans

* Peter Bielenburg: member of anti-Nazi resistance (''Master Race'') * Gerda Bodenheimer: Jewish Berlin resident (''Master Race'') * Hans Brunswig:

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...

fireman (1943) (''Total War'') * Karl von Clemm: World War I artillerist (''Killing Fields'') * Anna-Maria Ernst: gypsy Auschwitz survivor (''Master Race'') * Luise Essig: Agriculture Ministry education worker (1937–1945) (''Master Race'') * Josef Felder:

Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany ( , SPD ) is a social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the party's leader since the 2019 leadership election together w ...

parliamentarian (1933) (''Master Race'') * Mike Frohnel: East German hospital worker (''People Power'') * Herta Grabarz:

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...

villager (''Master Race'') * Jurgen Kroeger:

Einsatzgruppen (, ; also 'task forces') were (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. The had an integral role in the imp ...

interpreter (1942) (''Master Race'') * Ilsa Kruger: Berlin resident (1945) (''Brave New World'') *

Harald Jäger Harald Jäger (born 27 April 1943) is a former East German Stasi officer and border guard who was in charge of a passport control unit. On 9 November 1989, he opened the Bornholmer Straße border crossing of the Berlin Wall, under pressure from ...

: East German border guard (''People Power'') * Hanne-Lore Lutgering:

League of German Girls The League of German Girls or the Band of German Maidens (, abbreviated as BDM) was the girls' wing of the Nazi Party youth movement, the Hitler Youth. It was the only legal female youth organization in Nazi Germany. At first, the League consis ...

member (''Master Race'') * Hans Margules: Jewish art student, later worker at Auschwitz (''Master Race'') * Anita Moller: Berlin tunnel escapee (1961) (''Brave New World'') *

Hans Münch Hans Wilhelm Münch (14 May 1911 – 6 December 2001), also known as The Good Man of Auschwitz, was a German Nazi Party member who worked as an SS physician during World War II at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945 in German oc ...

: SS doctor at Auschwitz (1942) (''Master Race'') * Karl Nagerl: Munich schoolboy (1924), later soldier (1938) (''Lost Peace'') * Karl-Henning Oldekop: World War I infantryman (''Killing Fields'') * Dietmar Passenheim: East German transport police officer (''People Power'') * Marie Rau: daughter of euthanised schizophrenic (''Master Race'') * Barbel Reinke: East German waitress (''People Power'') * Fritz Schilgen:

Berlin Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

torch lighter (''Sporting Fever'') * Horst Slesina: Propaganda Ministry worker (1934–1945) (''Master Race'') * Friedl Sonnenberg: young girl (1933) (''Master Race'') * Reinhard Spitzy: SS officer (1931–45) (''Master Race'') * Margarethe Stahl: child who witnessed outbreak of the First World War (''Killing Fields'') * George Stege:

Volkswagen Volkswagen (VW; )English: , . is a German automotive industry, automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Established in 1937 by German Labour Front, The German Labour Front, it was revitalized into the global brand it ...

factory worker (1955) (''Boomtime'') * Ernst Weckerling: World War I officer (''Killing Fields'') * Horst Westphal:

schoolboy (1942) (''Total War'') * Mercedes Wild: Berlin child (1945) (''Brave New World'') * Ilse Woile:

member (''Master Race'') * Margarette Zettel:

tram conductor, then civil defence worker (1943)(''Total War'')

Ghanaians

* Geoffrey Aduamah: war veteran (1947), later lawyer (1958) (''Freedom Now'') * Anim Assiful: cocoa farmer (1950) (''Freedom Now'') * Eddie Francois: civil servant (1960) (''Freedom Now'') * Komla Gbedema: vice chairman,

Convention People's Party The Convention People's Party (CPP) is a socialist political party in Ghana based on the ideas of the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. The CPP was formed in June 1949 after Nkrumah broke away from the United Gold Coast Convention (UGC ...

(1950) (''Freedom Now'') * E. T. Mensah: musician (1957) (''Freedom Now'') * Beatrice Quatey: market stall keeper (1960) (''Freedom Now'')

Hungarians

* Gergely Pongratz: independence fighter (''Brave New World'')

Indians

* Anil Agarwal: journalist (1972) (''Endangered Planet'') * Rahmat Bano:

Jaipur Jaipur (; , ) is the List of state and union territory capitals in India, capital and the List of cities and towns in Rajasthan, largest city of the north-western States and union territories of India, Indian state of Rajasthan. , the city had ...

television viewer (''Picture Power'') * Bikarma: smallpox sufferer (''Living Longer'') * Amravati Devi: villager (''Living Longer'') * Mukesh Gupta: smelter owner (''Endangered Planet'') * Buddu Harku:

cataract A cataract is a cloudy area in the lens (anatomy), lens of the eye that leads to a visual impairment, decrease in vision of the eye. Cataracts often develop slowly and can affect one or both eyes. Symptoms may include faded colours, blurry or ...

sufferer (''Living Longer'') * Zafar Husain: smallpox campaigner (1968) (''Living Longer'') * Birenda Kaur: student (1947) (''Freedom Now'') * Cha Kunga: World War I labourer (''Killing Fields'') * Peter Morris:

Bangalore Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...

medical scribe (''Fast Forward'') * Vishnu Ogale: sterilised father (''Living Longer'') * Dutta Pai: family planning doctor (''Living Longer'') * Teju Raghuvir:

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

villager (''Living Longer'') * Bhairu Ram:

television viewer (''Picture Power'') * Rajam Ramanathan:

film viewer (''Great Escape'') * Satpal Saini: farmer (1947) (''Freedom Now'') * Bano Shamshaad:

Bhopal Bhopal (; ISO 15919, ISO: Bhōpāl, ) is the capital (political), capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. It is known as the ''City of Lakes,'' due to ...

resident (1984) (''Endangered Planet'') * Asha Singh: villager (''Living Longer'')

Iranians

* Hadi Gaffari: mullah (1978) (''God Fights Back'') * Mohammed Shah Hossein:

Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...

carpenter (1978) (''God Fights Back'') * Zeynab Jalili: (''Half the People'') * Darioush Keshuarpad: student (1971) (''God Fights Back'') * Maloud Khanlary: schoolgirl (1936) (''Half the People'', ''God Fights Back'') * Saeed Manesh: schoolboy (1979), later soldier (''God Fights Back'') * Soroor Moradi Nazari:

resident (1975) (''God Fights Back'') *

Mohsen Rafighdoost Mohsen Rafighdoust (also Rafiqdoust, ) is an Iranian terrorist and Revolutionary Guards military officer and conservative politician. He is a member of the Islamic Coalition Party. Early life Rafighdoost was born around 1940 in south Tehran. His ...

: Ayatollah

Ruhollah Khomeini Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (17 May 1900 or 24 September 19023 June 1989) was an Iranian revolutionary, politician, political theorist, and religious leader. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the main leader of the Iranian ...

's driver (''God Fights Back'') * Mashid Amir Shahy: physics student (1979) (''Half the People'')

Italians

* Evio Barretti: Pontedera

Vespa Vespa () is an Italian brand of scooters and mopeds manufactured by Piaggio. The name means wasp in Italian. The Vespa has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co. S.p.A. of Pontedera, Italy, to a ...

factory worker (1958) (''Boomtime'') * Duilia Bartoli: film viewer (''Great Escape'') * Luigi Cavaliere: projectionist (''Great Escape'') * Gerardo Ciola: Naples resident (1946) (''Boomtime'') * Edda Furlan: Pordenone factory worker (1963) (''Boomtime'') * Felice Gentile:

Fiat Fiat Automobiles S.p.A., commonly known as simply Fiat ( , ; ), is an Italian automobile manufacturer. It became a part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in 2014 and, in 2021, became a subsidiary of Stellantis through its Italian division, Stellant ...

worker (1936) (''On the Line'') * Giovanni Gobbi:

worker (1926) (''On the Line'') * Don Giovanni Lano: Turin priest (1963) (''Boomtime'') * Franco Ricci: film viewer (1925) (''Great Escape'') * Lisetta Salis: Rome resident (''Great Escape'') * Giovanni de Stefanis: Turin factoryworker (1949) (''Boomtime'')

Japanese

* Kinnojo Abe: bed salesman (1965) (''Asia Rising'') * Tsuginori Hanamoto:

Minamata Bay Minamata Bay is a bay in the small factory town of Minamata on the west coast of Kyūshū island, located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. The bay is part of the larger Shiranui Sea which is sandwiched between the coast of the Kyūshū mainlan ...

fisherman (1959), later patients leader (1973) (''Endangered Planet'') * Yoshiko Hashimoto: Tokyo resident (''Total War'', ''Asia Rising'') * Akira Ishida:

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has b ...

atom bomb survivor (''Fallout'') * Tomiji Matsuda: victim of

accident (''Endangered Planet'') * Sumiko Morikawa: Tokyo resident (1944) (''Total War'') * Hakudo Nagatomi: soldier (''Total War'') * Jun Nagasawa: guitarist, The Three Funkies (1958) (''Asia Rising'') * Miyoshi Ohba: rural health worker (1946) (''Asia Rising'') * Matashichi Oshi: '' Lucky Dragon'' crewmember (1954) (''Fallout'') * Katsumoto Saotome: schoolboy (1944) (''Total War'') * Nobuko Sato: Tokyo resident (1965) (''Asia Rising'') * Taisuke Sato: Tokyo resident (1965) (''Asia Rising'') * Hisako Sugawara:

Sony is a Japanese multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including Sony Corporation (electronics), Sony Semiconductor Solutions (i ...

factory worker (1963) (''Asia Rising'') * Kuniyuki Takeshita: Minamata

Chisso The , since 2012 reorganized as JNC (Japan New Chisso), is a Japanese chemical company. It is an important supplier of liquid crystal used for LCDs, but is best known for its role in the 34-year-long pollution of the water supply in Minamata, J ...

plant manager (''Endangered Planet'') * Sumiteru Taniguchi:

atom bomb survivor (''Fallout'') * Mohei Tamura: (born 1890) salesman (''Age of Hope'') * Yoshihiro Yamashita:

employee (1956) (''Endangered Planet'') * Suezo Uchida:

Nagasaki , officially , is the capital and the largest Cities of Japan, city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. Founded by the Portuguese, the port of Portuguese_Nagasaki, Nagasaki became the sole Nanban trade, port used for tr ...

shipbuilder (1954) (''Asia Rising'')

Kenyans

* Waijwa Theuri: Mau Mau fighter (1953) (''Freedom Now'') * Wangugu Gitchonga: detainee (1953) (''Freedom Now'') * Syvia Richardson: British settler (1953) (''Freedom Now'')

Koreans

* Yeon Bong Hak: Pohang Steel employee (''Asia Rising'') * Park Dae Hyun: teacher (1972) (''Asia Rising'') * Yi Chong Kak: textile worker, then union leader (''Asia Rising'') * Kim Bok Soon: housekeeper (1953), then

New Community Movement The Saemaul Undong (), also known as the New Community Movement, New Village Movement, Saemaul Movement or Saema'eul Movement, was a political initiative launched on April22, 1970 by South Korean president Park Chung Hee to modernize the rural ...

activist (1971) (''Asia Rising'') * Jang Chang Sun: wrestler at the

Tokyo Olympics Tokyo Olympics may refer to: * 1940 Summer Olympics, Games of the XII Olympiad, cancelled due to World War II * 1964 Summer Olympics, Games of the XVIII Olympiad * 2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an ...

(''Asia Rising'') * Yan Pyon Tou: forced labourer (''Total War'') * Kwak Man Young: student (1951), then highway engineer (1969) (''Asia Rising'')

Israelis

* Dora (Dvora) Schwartz: Holocaust survivor (''Master Race'')

Lithuanian

* Zvi Michaeli: Holocaust survivor (''Master Race'')

Mexicans

* Serafina Gallardo: shanty town dweller (1994) (''Half the People'')

Mozambiquans

* Xadreque Paulino Sarea:

Frelimo FRELIMO (; from , ) is a democratic socialist political party in Mozambique. It has governed the country since its independence from Portugal in 1975. Founded in 1962, FRELIMO began as a nationalist movement fighting for the self-determination ...

fighter (1970) (''Freedom Now'') * Leia Isaia Mbazima: cotton worker (1947) (''Freedom Now'')

Pakistanis

* Tahir Kazi:

Rawalpindi Rawalpindi is the List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, third-largest city in the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is a commercial and industrial hub, being the list of cities in P ...

shopkeeper (1981) (''God Fights Back'') * Shazia Lal: schoolgirl (1981) (''God Fights Back'')

Palestinians

Abu Daoud Mohammad Daoud Oudeh (, 1937 – 3 July 2010), commonly known by his nom de guerre Abu Daoud or Abu Dawud (), was a Palestinian militant, teacher and lawyer known as the planner, architect and mastermind of the Munich massacre. He served in a ...

Black September Black September (), also known as the Jordanian Civil War, was an armed conflict between Jordan, led by Hussein of Jordan, King Hussein, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), led by chairman Yasser Arafat. The main phase of the fight ...

leader (''Picture Power'')

Peruvians

* Luis Correa Camacho: mayor of Otuzco (1991) (''Living Longer'') * Maria Llanos Rudas: wife of cholera victim (''Living Longer'')

Poles

* Henryka Kryzwonos:

Gdańsk Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...

tram driver and

Solidarność Solidarity (, ), full name Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity" ( , abbreviated ''NSZZ „Solidarność”''), is a Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard, Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Polish People's Rep ...

leader (''People Power'')

Romanians

* Ioan Banciu:

Timișoara Timișoara (, , ; , also or ; ; ; see #Etymology, other names) is the capital city of Timiș County, Banat, and the main economic, social and cultural center in Western Romania. Located on the Bega (Tisza), Bega River, Timișoara is consider ...

engineer (''People Power'') * Mihai Radu: student (''People Power'') * Ioan Savu:

chemical worker (''People Power'') * Steliana Stefonoiu: Bucharest television viewer (''Picture Power'')

Russians

* Lev Altshuller: nuclear scientist (1947) (''Fallout'') * Alyosha: Saint Petersburg street kid (''Fast Forward'') * Mikhail Arkhipov:

Magnitogorsk Magnitogorsk ( rus, Магнитого́рск, p=məɡnʲɪtɐˈɡorsk, ) is an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, on the eastern side of the extreme southern extent of the Ural Mountains by the Ural River. Its population is curre ...

volunteer (''Red Flag'') * Tamara Banketik: child presenter (''Brave New World'') * Oleg Blotski: platoon commander (1986) (''War of the Flea'') * Alexander Briansky: revolutionary in 1905 and 1917 (''Age of Hope'', ''Red Flag'') * Arkadi Brish: nuclear scientist (1947) (''Fallout'') * Izo Degtyar: musician (''Red Flag'') * Anastasia Denisova: literacy campaign worker (1924) (''Red Flag'') * Sergey Evdokimov: anti-putschist tank brigade commander (''People Power'') * Tatiana Fedeorova': labourer (1932), then Soviet parliamentarian (1937) (''Red Flag'') * Nina Fedorovna:

Kirov Plant The Kirov Plant, Kirov factory or Leningrad Kirov plant (LKZ) () is a major Russian mechanical engineering and agricultural machinery manufacturing plant in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was established in 1789, then moved to its present site in 1801 ...

inspector, later unemployed (''Fast Forward'') * Leonid Galperin:

Road of Life The Road of Life () was the set of ice road transport routes across Lake Ladoga to Leningrad during the Second World War. They were the only Soviet winter surface routes into the city while it was besieged by the German Army Group North und ...

commandant (1942) (''Total War'') * Dasha Khubova: student? (''People Power'') * Max Kleinman: factory worker, then World War I infantryman (''Age of Hope'', ''Killing Fields'') * Alexei Kozlov: jazz musician (''Brave New World'') * Stanislava Kraskovskaya: (born 1897) witnessed pogroms in Russia (''Age of Hope'') * Natasha Kuznetsova: Moscow resident (''People Power'') * Anna Larina: wife of

Nikolai Bukharin Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (; rus, Николай Иванович Бухарин, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪdʑ bʊˈxarʲɪn; – 15 March 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist. A prominent Bolshevik ...

(''Red Flag'') * Nikolai Lukianov: revolutionary in 1905 (''Age of Hope'') * Evgeny Mahayev: fishmonger (''People Power'') * Ksenya Matus:

Leningrad Radio Orchestra The Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra (in ), founded in 1931, is one of the two symphony orchestras belonging to the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia society, the other being the more famous Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, founded ...

oboist (''Total War'') * Mikhail Midlin: Konsomolol member (1924), later purged (''Red Flag'') * Valentina Mikova:

party worker (''Red Flag'') * Nina Motova: Ballbearing factory worker (''People Power'') * Mikhail Rozenthal: World War I soldier (''Killing Fields'') * Oleg Rumiantsev:

worker, later entrepreneur (''Fast Forward'') * Alexandra Sakharova: forced labourer (1942) (''Total War'') * Anatoly Semiriaga: Soviet Army captain, then major (''Brave New World'') * Ella Shistyer: student (1923), then electrical engineer, later purged (''Red Flag'') * Alexandr Silvashko: Soviet Army lieutenant (1945) (''Brave New World'') * Elena Taranukhina:

Leningrad Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

resident (1941) (''Total War'') *

Boris Yefimov Boris Yefimovich Yefimov (; ,The birth record of Boris Fridlyand (Boris Yefimov) in the metric book of the Kiev rabbinate for 1900 ( ЦГИАК Украины. Ф. 1164. Оп. 1. Д. 454. Л. 435об—436.) (rus) – October 1, 2008) was a Russi ...

: ''

Pravda ''Pravda'' ( rus, Правда, p=ˈpravdə, a=Ru-правда.ogg, 'Truth') is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most in ...

'' cartoonist (''Red Flag'') * Lubov Zhakova:

resident (''Total War'')

Senegalese

* Amadou Barro Diene: student (1958) (''Freedom Now'') * Majhemout Diop: party activist (1958) (''Freedom Now'')

Somalis

* Ali Maalin: last smallpox sufferer (''Living Longer'')

South Africans

* Magdeline Chosane: Soweto schoolgirl (1976) * Justina Coha: East London nurse (1959) (''Skin Deep'') * Christine Hadebe: Johannesburg maid (1950s) (''Skin Deep'') *

John Kani Bonisile John Kani (born 30 August 1942) is a South African actor. He is known for portraying T'Chaka in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films '' Captain America: Civil War'' (2016) and ''Black Panther'' (2018), Rafiki in ''The Lion King'' (201 ...

: actor (''Skin Deep'') * M P Lombaard: civil servant (1959) (''Skin Deep'') * Moira Mbelu: Soweto schoolgirl (1976) (''Skin Deep'') * Amos Msimanga: African National Congress member (''Skin Deep'') * Ray Mahlambeni: Pan African Congress member (''Skin Deep'') * Mbongeni Ndlovu: Johannesburg resident (''Skin Deep'') * Dorah Ramothibe: (born 1881, oldest interviewee) Transvaal farmworker (''Age of Hope'') * Eric Rothele: Soweto schoolboy (1976) (''Skin Deep'') *

Nico Smith Nico Smith (''Nicolaas Johannes Smith''; 1929 – 19 June 2010) was a South African Afrikaner minister and prominent opponent of apartheid. Smith was a professor of theology at the University of Stellenbosch, a member of the Afrikaner Broeder ...

: theology student (1948) (''Skin Deep'') * Tournament Vusani: General Motors worker (1985) (''Skin Deep'')

Sudanese

* John Robien Ayai: amputee convict (''God Fights Back'')

Swedes

* Gota Rosen: Social Democrats member (''Breadline'')

Turks

* Serodor Peliganovlu: schoolboy (1925) (''God Fights Back'')

Ukrainians

* Izrail Chernitsky: young communist (1928) (''Red Flag'') * Pelageya Ovcharenko: peasant (1928) (''Red Flag'') * Veniamin Prianichnikov: Chernobyl engineer (1986) (''Fallout'') * Valery Staradumov: Chernobyl scientist (1986) (''Fallout'')

Uruguyans

* Diego Lucero: football journalist (1930) (''Sporting Fever'') *

Ondino Viera Ondino Leonel Viera Palasérez (10 September 1901 – 27 June 1997), in Brazil also known as ''Ondino Vieira'', was a Uruguayan football manager. He was the first coach to use a 4-2-4 in Brazil. In his long-lasting career he won between the ...

: Football coach (1930) (''Sporting Fever'')

Vietnamese

* Nguyen Thi Be: child guerrilla (''War of the Flea'') * Phan Dien:

Viet Cong The Viet Cong (VC) was an epithet and umbrella term to refer to the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam. It was formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, and ...

local leader (1960) (''War of the Flea'') *

Võ Nguyên Giáp Võ Nguyên Giáp ( vi-hantu, , ; 25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary and politician. Highly regarded as a military strategist, Giáp led Vietnamese communist forces to victories in wars agains ...

Việt Minh The Việt Minh (, ) is the common and abbreviated name of the League for Independence of Vietnam ( or , ; ), which was a communist-led national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó by Hồ Chí Minh on 19 May 1941. Also known as the Vi ...

leader (1954) (''War of the Flea'') * Tran Thi Gung:

guerrilla (1963) (''War of the Flea'') * Chau Van Nhat: farmer (''War of the Flea'') * Lam Van Phan: North Vietnamese spy (1963) (''War of the Flea'') *

Lâm Văn Phát Lâm Văn Phát (1920 – 30 October 1998) was a Major general in the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). He is best known for leading two '' coup'' attempts against General Nguyễn Khánh in September 1964 and February ...

: South Vietnam army general (1963) (''War of the Flea'')

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