Hannie Schaft, a 24-year-old law student from Haarlem, risked everything to fight Nazi tyranny.
She smuggled Jewish families to safety, sabotaged German operations, and executed collaborators — earning the title “the girl with the red hair.”
Tortured, betrayed, and executed just three weeks befor...

At just nineteen, Liane Berkowitz stood against Hitler’s regime with nothing but courage and conviction.
A Berlin student, she joined the Red Orchestra resistance network and risked everything to expose Nazi lies.
Arrested, tortured, and condemned while pregnant, she faced death with faith and di...

Freddie and Truus Oversteegen were just teenagers when they began fighting back against Nazi rule in the Netherlands. They sabotaged railways, smuggled weapons, rescued Jewish children, and lured Nazis into deadly traps. Often underestimated because of their youth, they used it to their advantage...

Sophie Scholl, a 21-year-old student, became a symbol of courage in Nazi Germany. As a member of the White Rose resistance, she distributed anti-Nazi leaflets and openly defied Hitler’s regime. Arrested with her brother Hans, she refused to betray her principles. On February 22, 1943, Sophie walk...

Nancy Wake, known as the “White Mouse,” became one of WWII’s most daring resistance fighters. From smuggling Allied pilots to leading deadly raids, she outwitted the Gestapo time and again. Trained by Britain’s SOE, she cycled 500 km to deliver vital codes, killed an SS officer with her bare hand...

She served tea to monsters — then destroyed one. In 1943, Yelena Mazanik, a maid in Nazi-occupied Minsk, turned her courage into a weapon. Smuggling a bomb into Wilhelm Kube’s bedroom, she ended the life of the man responsible for mass murder across Belarus. Her act of vengeance echoed through th...

She was young, brilliant, and in love. But when Kyiv fell to the Nazis, Tetyana Markus became one of the most dangerous resistance fighters in occupied Ukraine. Under a false identity, she seduced and executed Nazi officers before being captured and brutally tortured. Her final words inspired her...

At just seventeen, Lepa Radic stood beneath the gallows with unbroken spirit. She had rescued the wounded, led civilians to safety, and fought the German invaders who terrorized her homeland. When captured and tortured, she refused to reveal a single name. In 1943, she met death with pride, decla...

Born in Leningrad and trapped behind enemy lines, Zinaida Portnova chose to fight back. She joined the underground resistance, carried out daring acts of sabotage, and avenged her family’s suffering. Even under torture, she revealed nothing. Executed at just 17, she remains one of the youngest an...