Simone Segouin
Notable figure in the French Resistance during World War II.
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Hannie Schaft
Dutch resistance fighter during World War II, renowned as “the girl with the red hair.”
Truus Oversteegen
Dutch sculptor and painter who she played a significant role in the anti-Nazi Dutch Resistance
Freddie Oversteegen
Freddie Oversteegen was a member of the resistance during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II.
Partizanke
The contribution of partizanke, or female partisan fighters, to the Yugoslav liberation war was unprecedented in occupied Europe: official statistics of the socialist period report 100,000 women fighting as partisans, and two million participating in various ways to the support of the National Liberation Movement.
Mary Elmes
Irish humanitarian worker ‘righteous among the nations’
Lucie Aubrac
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.
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
Nexhmije Hoxha
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.