Elizabeth Van Lew
She joined with other Richmond Unionists to create an underground network to hinder the Confederate war effort and give aid and comfort to captured Union soldiers during the United States’ Civil War.
She joined with other Richmond Unionists to create an underground network to hinder the Confederate war effort and give aid and comfort to captured Union soldiers during the United States’ Civil War.
1600s playwright, poet and spy
Russian princess who worked to save Jews from the Holocaust.
American literary historian, translator, and a member of the German resistance against the Nazi regime.
SOE spy in France during WWII
Jewish Argentine revolutionary and guerilla fighter
Irish humanitarian worker ‘righteous among the nations’
Frenchwoman Lucie Aubrac was a Sorbonne graduate, a schoolteacher and a committed Communist. Brought up in rural poverty between the wars, she was also a lifelong résistante against social and political oppression, including four years’ militant opposition to the Nazi Occupation of France.
Intelligence officer who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II
Irish intelligence agent