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 before liberation, she became a national heroine and a symbol of courage.
Her story reminds the world that even in darkness, one brave voice can ignite freedom.
Up Next in Season 1
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Jozef Gabčík: The Man Who Led the Hey...
In March 1939, Nazi Germany occupied Bohemia and Moravia, turning the heart of Czechoslovakia into a Protectorate of fear. But one Slovak soldier refused to submit. Jozef Gabčík, a young paratrooper trained in exile, returned home with a single, impossible mission — to assassinate Reinhard Heydri...
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Yefrosinya Zenkova: The Belarusian Te...
On 22 June 1941, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, unleashing a war of annihilation against the Soviet Union. Amid the chaos and terror of Nazi occupation in Belarus, one young woman refused to surrender.
At just eighteen, Yefrosinya Zenkova founded and led the underground youth group “Young...
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Lyudmila Pavlichenko: The Soviet ‘Lad...
June 22, 1941 — Nazi Germany launches Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union. Amid the chaos stands a 25-year-old woman determined to defend her homeland — Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a history student from Kiev who will become the most successful female sniper in history.
From the Siege of Od...
