Street performers often appeared in the plazas and streets away from Rome's famous attractions.
Some painted portraits for people, while others played instruments. In the plaza outside the office window of Pope John Paul II's private secretary, a violinist was performing.
On the other side of the plaza, someone was creating a 3D painting of scorching lava beneath cracked earth, drawing quite a crowd.
This small plaza lay outside the Vatican. Though there were performers in the city as well, no one was allowed to graffiti those ancient, sacred buildings.
Many people remembered Schindler, but few knew of Irena Sendler. She had once been a nurse working in Warsaw. During the German occupation, she used her position as cover to continually provide Jews with desperately needed clothing, food, and medicine.
But three years later, conditions suddenly worsened dramatically. Thousands of Jews were sent to death camps every day.
She immediately formed a "network" with her companions to help Jewish children escape, using her identity as a social worker to enter the Jewish quarter.
But many Jewish parents did not dare let them take their children away. The first thing they asked was, "What guarantee is there that the children will survive?"
She could only answer truthfully: none. Even she herself did not know whether she would leave the ghetto alive that day.
She hid more than 2,500 Jewish children beneath stretchers, in suitcases, and in body bags. She even disguised some children as having infectious diseases, taking them out of the ghetto in ambulances and sending them to Catholic churches.
Even the children lucky enough to be rescued still faced the threat of death at every moment. At the time, everyone in Warsaw feared for their own safety. Ruthless informers were everywhere, and the Gestapo searched daily for Jews who