Yvonne Rudellat
Using the cover name Jacqueline Gautier, the 45-year-old Rudellat worked as a courier, organized supply drops, and became skilled at sabotage after being deployed to France in July 1942.
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Julienne Aisner
A former teacher and scriptwriter, Julienne Aisner was running a Paris film company when the Nazis occupied France. The 43-year-old Aisner was recruited in January 1943 by an SOE officer to rent apartments for arriving SOE agents, welcome them to Paris and provide them with false documents—identity cards, ration cards, and work permits—that she obtained.
Blanche Charlet
Blanche Charlet was an influential gallery owner in Brussels after World War I. Known as Agent Japonica and Ventriloquist, Charlet was recruited by the SOE in 1941 and became a courier for the French resistance during WWII.
Marie-Louise Dissard
WWII French resistance member Marie-Louise Dissard, code name Françoise or Victoire, was in her 60s when she took over the escape network known as the Pat O’Leary Line.
Marie-Thérèse Le Chêne
Marie-Thérèse Le Chêne was the oldest woman the SOE sent to France—age 52 when she was served as a courier and distributed anti-Nazi materials from November 1942 to August 1943.
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.