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Irena Sendler

Vital member of the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw, heading the children’s section of Żegota from October 1943.

Simone Segouin

Notable figure in the French Resistance during World War II.

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.

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.