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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.

Marie-Madeleine Fourcade

One of the most famous female resistants during WWII and the only woman to be made chef de résistance

Lise Lesèvre

A member of the French Resistance, she was brutally tortured by Klaus Barbie, the so-called “Butcher of Lyon,” after being captured with clandestine documents.

Madeleine Riffaud

Madeleine Riffaud was a French war correspondent and poet who worked with the French Resistance during WWII