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 dignity — writing her final words before being executed by guillotine in Plötzensee Prison.
Her story is a haunting symbol of youthful defiance and the price of freedom under tyranny.
Up Next in Season 1
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Hannie Schaft: The Red-Haired Symbol ...
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.”
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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...
