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Gerrit van der Veen, born on this day in 1902, was a Dutch anti-fascist sculptor who was assassinated by the Nazis after a failed attempt to free his comrades from prison. Van der Veen helped forge more than 80,000 ethnic identity papers.
Image: Gerrit Jan van der Veen. Photo in a series with his family, 1942 [Wikipedia]
On this day in 2020, the largest strike in world history began in India when 250 million workers from across the country struck both in solidarity with farmers protesting en masse and to demand better working conditions for themselves.
Image: Farmers gather as they take part in a nationwide general strike to protest against the recent agricultural reforms at the Delhi-Haryana state border in Singhu on December 8, 2020. From Sajjad HUSSAIN
Sarah Grimké, born on this day in 1792, was a prominent American feminist and abolitionist. "All I ask of [men] is that they will take their feet from off our necks and permit us to stand upright on the ground..."