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...

Captured during WWII, Spanish Republican Francisco Boix was sent to Mauthausen concentration camp, where he worked in the photo lab. Risking certain death, he smuggled thousands of incriminating SS photographs out of the camp. After the war, his images exposed SS crimes and linked top Nazi leader...

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...

Witold Pilecki volunteered to enter Auschwitz to expose Nazi crimes and organize resistance from within. After escaping, he fought in the Warsaw Uprising, only to be executed by the postwar communist regime. This is the story of one of WWII’s bravest men, a hero who defied both Hitler and Stalin.

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...

Jan Kubiš was a humble Czech soldier who became one of WWII’s most daring heroes. In 1942, during Operation Anthropoid, he and Jozef Gabčík struck down Reinhard Heydrich, the brutal “Butcher of Prague.” Though Kubiš paid with his life, his courage proved that even a small nation could strike at N...

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...

When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, one man refused to accept occupation as fate. Gerrit Kastein — a brilliant neurologist and passionate anti-fascist — traded the safety of his medical career for the peril of resistance. As bombs fell on Rotterdam, he vowed to fight back. From...

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...

Born into a devout Catholic family, Jan Verleun dreamed of becoming a priest. When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands, his faith was tested by war. Wounded in battle, he vowed to dedicate his life to freeing his country from occupation.
Joining the underground resistance group CS-6, Verleun use...