Name↕ | Country↕ | Lifespan↕ | Group/Network↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jean Moulin | France | 1899-1943 | Conseil National de la Resistance | Unified French Resistance under de Gaulle, tortured to death by Klaus Barbie |
Sophie Scholl | Germany | 1921-1943 | White Rose | Student leaflet campaign against Nazis, guillotined at 21 in Munich |
Hans Scholl | Germany | 1918-1943 | White Rose | Sophie's brother, co-founded White Rose, executed same day as sister |
Claus von Stauffenberg | Germany | 1907-1944 | 20 July plot | Planted briefcase bomb at Wolf's Lair to kill Hitler, shot by firing squad in Berlin |
Virginia Hall | USA/UK | 1906-1982 | SOE/OSS | American spy with prosthetic leg, Limping Lady, most wanted Allied agent in France |
Nancy Wake | Australia/NZ | 1912-2011 | SOE | The White Mouse, led 7,000 maquisards, killed SS guard with karate chop |
Irena Sendler | Poland | 1910-2008 | Zegota | Smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of Warsaw Ghetto in ambulances and coffins |
Witold Pilecki | Poland | 1901-1948 | Home Army | Voluntarily infiltrated Auschwitz to gather intel, escaped after 2.5 years, executed by communists |
Hannie Schaft | Netherlands | 1920-1945 | RVV | Girl with red hair, assassinated collaborators, executed weeks before liberation |
Marianne Cohn | Germany/France | 1922-1944 | MJS | Led Jewish children across Swiss border, captured and beaten to death by Gestapo |
Odette Sansom | France/UK | 1912-1995 | SOE | Captured and tortured at Ravensbruck, survived, first woman awarded George Cross |
Noor Inayat Khan | UK/India | 1914-1944 | SOE | First female wireless operator sent to occupied France, executed at Dachau, George Cross |
Haviva Reik | Slovakia | 1914-1944 | Jewish Parachutists | Parachuted into Slovakia to aid Jews, executed by SS, Israeli national heroine |
Tito (Josip Broz) | Yugoslavia | 1892-1980 | Partisans | Led Yugoslav Partisans, only resistance to liberate own country, post-war dictator |
Mordechai Anielewicz | Poland | 1919-1943 | ZOB | Commander of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, died in bunker at Mila 18 at age 24 |
Missak Manouchian | Armenia/France | 1906-1944 | FTP-MOI | Armenian-French poet, led immigrant Resistance group, Affiche Rouge propaganda target |
Andree de Jongh | Belgium | 1916-2007 | Comet Line | At 24 founded escape line that saved 800+ Allied airmen over the Pyrenees |
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