Truus Oversteegen
Dutch sculptor and painter who she played a significant role in the anti-Nazi Dutch Resistance
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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.
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.