Birth name Franziska Schanzkowska. According to the generally accepted version, the entire imperial family was shot on July 17, 1918. According to Anna's version, it was she, Princess Anastasia Nikolaevna, who managed to survive and escape.

The story of Sonya Zolotoy (GOLD) Ruchka, perhaps the most famous Russian criminal, is as mysterious as she herself. And it's no wonder - Sofia Ivanovna Sheindlya-Sura Leibovna Bluvshtein (that was actually the name of the swindler) falsified everything with her own hands. And in this the woman was miraculously good. Although her actions were not always ruled by passion for money. It turned out that love for men was just as much to blame.

Yoshie Shiratori - Born in Aomori Prefecture in 1907, Yoshie Shiratori is the only Japanese to escape from prison four times. Yoshie was separated from his real parents at an early age. He was married and had a child, but was later imprisoned for robbery.

A total of 667 prisoners tried to escape from the worst Nazi concentration camp in the world, Auschwitz, where more than a million people died during World War II, but not even half of them were lucky enough to survive. Among the lucky few, but also the most famous, were Czechoslovakians Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, who were among the first to give written testimony about what happened at Auschwitz after they returned home. It was their report that convinced the Allies to take seriously the rumors of killings in Nazi concentration camps.