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Nora Sipos

Czech who risked her life to help Jews during WWII and helped refugees afterward

Janie McCarthy

Irish WWII resistance worker and language teacher

Albanian Communist Nexhmije Hoxha was the first lady of Socialist Albania for more than 40 years, from 1944 to 1985, as the wife of Enver Hoxha. She was one of the few spouses of a ruling Communist party leader to gain her own high political profile.

Monica de Wichfeld

Danish WWII resistance heroine

Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia

Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia might be the most quoted witness of the Dada movement, yet she is one of the least studied. Her name is most often found in the footnotes of books, next to citations for her detailed comments and stories on the charismatic male leaders of the Dada movement.

Mary de Galway O’Kelly

Belgian resistance operative during World War II

Josephine Baker

World renowned performer, World War II spy, and activist are few of the titles used to describe Josephine Baker. One of the most successful African American performers in French history, Baker’s career illustrates the ways entertainers can use their platforms to change the world.

Ilse Stanley

Ilse (Intrator) Stanley was a German Jew who, working with a handful of people including Nazi Gestapo members of the Gestapo and other Jewish civilians, secured the release of 412 Jewish prisoners from Nazi concentration camps between 1936 and 1938, before the devastating events of Kristallnacht (November 9, 1938).

Lise de Baissac

Lise Marie Jeanette de Baissac MBE was an agent of the United Kingdom’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) clandestine organization in France during World War II.

Irena Sawicka

Irena Scheur-Sawicka was a Polish archaeologist, ethnographer, and educational and communist activist who joined the Polish Workers’ Party during World War II.