Lela Sopianic



Lela Sopianic was a Croatian women who hid forty families in her house from the horrible torture and death. Risked her life and even killed an SS officer.

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Lela Sopianic was a college girl at the time and living with herslef. She believed in Gospel sayings in which one she took into practice, "love thy neighbor as thyself." Using the bible as her reference point, she immediately took action and began to save and hide families within her own house. She knew what she was doing was against the Nazis and that if they were to find she would have been killed. She decided to take matters into her own hands and risked her own life for others. She made her own choices and did not care. At one point, she got caught having Jews in her house by a SS soldier and she had to decide for herself to save the Jews and eventually chose to kill the SS soldier.

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