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  The Igbo landing, also known as the Igbo Mass suicide is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn country Georgia. The Igbo Captives were taken from where is now known as Nigeria. In May 1803, the Igbo captives arrived in Savannah, Georgia on the slave ship "The wanderer". They were purchase for an average of $100 each by slave merchants John Couper and Thomas Spalding to be resold to plantations on nearby St. Simons Island. The chained slaves were packed under deck of a coastal vessel "The York", which would take them to St. Simons Island. Rather than accept a life of slavery, they decided to take a stand and rebel against their captors. They took control of the ship, drowned the captors and in the process caused a grounding of the ship in the Dunbar Creek. According to oral history, about 75 of them held hands and under the instruction of their high chief, marched into the marshy waters of the Dunbar Creek to commit mass suicide while sing...

Doctor Eugene Lazowski, also known as "The Polish Schindler" was born in Czestochowa Poland in the year 1913. He was a doctor who served as a Polish army second Lieutenant on a red cross train army. He had just finished medical school when the Nazi's invaded Poland in 1939. He played on German phobias on hygiene and saved approximately 8,000 Jewish people.  Typhus was spreading across the country. He discovered a particular bacteria strain (Proteus OX19) that when injected into a person would cause them to test positive to Typhus without actually suffering the illness. On seeing this, he used his position as a doctor treating people travelling through a nearby station to conceal his supply of medicine.  Lazowski started injecting non-Jews, he knew that the Germans will immediately kill Jewish people injected with Typhus. He then sent blood samples to German labs. Once Typhus was detected, the Nazi's immediately quarantined the area. Due to the number of soldiers that ...