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Kathleen Clarke

Irish republican activist

Lilian Lenton

Militant British suffragette

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’

Brigid Thornton

Irish public health doctor and first female commissioned officer in the Irish Free State army

Vida Mary Katie MacLean

New Zealand civilian and military nurse, hospital matron

Lily Alexander

British activist, sculptor and painter who travelled internationally

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Indian independence activist

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.