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Simone Veil

French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician who championed women’s rights and is remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, the Veil Act (Loi Veil).

Marcelle Lafont

Marcelle Lafont (1905-1982) was a chemical engineer, resistance fighter and French politician.

Noreen Dennehy

Irish Franciscan nun who helped Jews escape from Italy during World War II

Kate McCarthy

Irish Franciscan nun and member of the French resistance during World War II

Gaby Bloch

Gaby Bloch was a French Resistance fighter during the Nazi occupation of her country during World War II.

Christabel Bielenberg

British expat who wrote about her experience of the rise of Hitler in Germany

During WWII, Suzanne Vallon fled France after her Resistance activity was discovered and ended up in North Africa on active duty. She also accompanied Allied troops as they went north after being freed from Germany.

Pippa Latour Doyle

Pippa Latour Doyle moved to England from her native South Africa in 1941 to join the war effort. She was recruited into the UK’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) to spy for the Allies in France due to her fluency in French.

Renée Bédarida

Renée Bedarida was a Frenc Resistance fighter who worked with the Lyonnais group Témoignage Chrétien (Christian Witness) in WWII. After the war, she wrote two books about the movement and its leader, Father Pierre Chaillet.

Marguerite Claeys

As part of the French Resistance during WWII, Mme Marguerite Claeys collected information from agents who posed as customers at the company she owned with her husband— all without his knowledge.