Sep 18, 2017
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize Laueate Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism. As a young boy growing up in a village in Tibet, he was formally recognized by Tibetan Buddhist elders as the reincarnated Dalai...
Sep 18, 2017
Elie Wiesel was fifteen years old when his entire family was taken from their homes in Romania to the Nazi concentration camps, first to Auschwitz where his mother and younger sister died, and then to Buchenwald where his father perished. He and his two older sisters...
Sep 18, 2017
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Anti-Apartheid Hero, Voice of Conscience, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Tutu was one of the two South African figures widely credited with bringing about the fall of South Africa’s oppressive Apartheid regime. The first...
Sep 18, 2017
Lech Walesa was an electrician in the Gdansk shipyards of Poland in 1970 when shipyard workers clashed with the communist government. In 1978 he began to organize activists for labor unions, culminating in the 1980 strikes for workers’ rights, which spread across the...
Sep 18, 2017
1995 Nobel Peace Prize – Joseph Rotblat, Scientist for Nuclear Disarmament One of the world’s first nuclear scientists, Joseph Rotblat was a part of the Manhattan Project, developing the atomic bomb. He resigned from the project and spent 50 years working to...
