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The Italian cycling champion who saved Jews during the Holocaust is given honorary Israeli citizenship
In the early 1940s, Bartali worked secretly as a courier for the Italian resistance. Nicknamed the “Iron Man of Tuscany,” Bartali was famous for hours-long training rides through the Tuscan ...
Greek Reporter1d
The German Soldier Who Saved a Greek Town from Destruction
Josef H. Blechinger was a German soldier who became one of the greatest heroes of the resistance and saved a Greek town from ...
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Miles Teller to Play Italian Cycling Champion and WWII Resistance Hero Gino Bartali in Biopic From ‘Nyad' Directors
During the war, he used his fame to carry messages to the Italian Resistance while also helping Jews being persecuted by the Nazis. In 2010, it emerged that he had hidden a Jewish family in his ...
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'He wasn't just a cycling legend, he was a true hero' - Miles Teller to play Italian champion Gino Bartali in new biopic
Miles Teller is set to play the lead role of Bartali, the two-time Tour de France winner who worked with the Italian resistance during WWII. Vasarhelyi and Chin's production company, Little ...