Coal Miner’s son digging coal from mine refuse on the road side. The picture was taken December 23, 1936 on a cold day when the town was buried in snow. The child was barefoot and seemed to be used to it. He was a quarter mile from his home. Scott’s Run, West Virginia. (WPA- Lewis Hine photographer)

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Paul Grüninger was a Swiss police chief who disobeyed orders to save about 3,600 Jewish refugees. He falsified their documents to indicate that they came when the legal entry of refugee was still legal. Grüninger was fired, convicted of misconduct, and stripped of his pension, 1930s .

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