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.
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Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai
Vietnamese revolutionary leader within the Indochinese Communist Party during the 1930s.
Ethel Pritchard
New Zealand nurse who served in WWI
Amy Curtis
Superintendent of the Women’s Royal Naval Service in the Portsmouth command (1939–44), worked in the resettlement advice service of the British ministry of labour and national service (1945–8), and was chief administrative officer of the Women’s Land Army in its last years (1948–50).
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
Simone Segouin
Notable figure in the French Resistance during World War II.
Mary Thomas
Women like Queen Mary Thomas, Queen Agnes Salomon, and Queen Mathilda McBean led the 1878 Fireburn labor rebellion, known as the Queens of the Fireburn.
Tamara Bunke
Jewish Argentine revolutionary and guerilla fighter
Nakano Takeko
One of the only known onna-bugeisha (female samurais) in Japan’s history