Judy- Described as the canine version of Unbroken, this beautiful and fascinating piece of history regards the only canine officially registered as a POW during WWII. I'm baffled this piece of history seems to be widely unknown.
Bronislaw Huberman- Referred to as the Oskar Schindler of Jewish musicians, Huberman is responsible for saving the lives of over 1,000 Jews by providing refuge from the Third Reich and recruiting exiled Jewish musicians to form an orchestra of his own, founding what would later become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mel and Annalee Jacoby- Husband and wife team of journalists that covered events in Asia in the days before World War II, who found themselves on the front lines for the first few months of the conflict when WWII erupted. They had to be careful not to get caught by Japanese troops or they would be executed and later managed to escape.
There's actually a book about this, but from what I've been told, the book's subtitle and the way it was promoted is really misleading as apparently half the book is mostly about Mel Jacoby and how he became interested in journalism. Once it gets to the whole love/survival part promised by the subtitle it is almost like a footnote with no impact.