/r/HistoryPorn
r/HistoryPorn. Exploring the past through historical photographs. Part of the SFW Porn Network
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Luisita Leers (1909-1997) was a prominent aerialist during the 1920s and 30s, who predominantly worked under the Barnum and Bailey Circus, performing at high profile venues like New York’s Roxy Thetre and Paris’ Cirque Medrano.
Her dynamic acrobatic routines included trapeze bar neck hangs and one arm planches, along with a perfect iron cross. Luisita boasted impressive muscular development and raw strength that most audiences haven’t seen before. She is often advertised as the “Maiden of Power.”
Unfortunately, WW2 would cut Luisita’s career short as she became trapped in Germany during the war. Her home was severely bombed, destroying most of her resources and pushing her into poverty. Newspaper articles indicate that she attempted to mount a comeback in 1947 but was ultimately unable to source the ample food to regain her strength.
Although her career as an aeralist was ended by the war, Luisita would find work as a translator and in her later years as a sculptor, fulfilling her second goal of being an artist. She passed away in 1997 at the age of 88.
a Tunisian wealthy man who saved 25 Tunisian Jews and sheltered them at his family’s farm and kept them there for 4 months, allocating small room to each family members, after he heard that Nazi German officers were planning to rape a local Jewish woman who was the wife of one of his acquaintance. The Jews remained under in his protection until the end of the Nazi occupation.
Sardari's first step to help Iranian Jews in France was to issue them with new passports that did not state their religion. He helped around 2,000 Jews obtain passports. Ibrahim Morady, an Iranian Jewish merchant that was saved by Sardari, stated that Sardari was asked by Iran's Foreign Ministry to return to Iran. Sardari refused to leave the Jews behind and feared that they would be deported. He began issuing hundreds of Iranian passports for non-Iranian Jews as well, to protect them from the Nazis. In hopes of protecting them from persecution, Sardari issued passports and signed affidavits for as many Iranian and non-Iranian Jews as he could (Form Wikipedia)