Claire Chevrillon
After the increasingly harsh laws were imposed on Jewish citizens during WWII, she joined the resistance most notably encoding and decoding messages between the Free French in London and de Gaulle’s Paris delegation.
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Célia Bertin
Célia Bertin was recruited to help Allied aviators hidden in Occupied Paris because of her ability to speak English. In 1993 she published a study of women during this period, Femmes sous l’Occupation.
Alice Arteil
Arteil commanded her own Frence Resistance group in WWII.
Annie Kriegel
During WWII, Annie Kriegel joined a Communist Resistance group at age fifteen because no other groups would admit a member so young.
Berty Albrecht
Berty Albrecht was passionate about family planning and better working conditions for women, and founded the feminist journal Le Problème Sexuel.
Dr Irena Białówna
In 1943, Dr. Irena Białówna was arrested by the Gestapo for her work in the underground resistance movement.
Rokhl Auerbakh
Polish-Jewish writer, escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and worked as a Polish secretary on the Aryan side, leveraging her non-Jewish appearance and German fluency.
Agnès Humbert
French art historian and ethnographer Agnès Humbert was also a member of the French Resistance during World War II.
Sofka Skipwith
Russian princess who worked to save Jews from the Holocaust.
Tatiana Markus
When Kyiv fell under German occupation in 1941, Markus joined the underground resistance. She carried out sabotage missions, often disguised as innocent gestures, like throwing a grenade hidden as a bouquet. Using a false identity as “Marcousisse,” she worked at an officer’s dining facility, poisoning SS officers’ meals and eliminating a valuable Gestapo informant.