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...

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...

Born into privilege, Élisabeth de Rothschild lived a life of elegance, beauty, and influence. But when France fell to the Nazis, her wealth and name could not save her. The Vichy regime’s betrayal, the Gestapo’s cruelty, and one final train to Ravensbrück sealed her fate. From Parisian salons to ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Deported to Auschwitz at just fourteen, Dita Kraus (née Polachová) risked her life to guard a handful of smuggled books for the children’s block — becoming the librarian of Auschwitz.
From the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau to the final days in Bergen-Belsen, Dita endured starvation, loss, and uni...

September 1938. Hitler’s demands tear Czechoslovakia apart, and a young Jewish girl named Dita Kraus (née Polachová) watches her peaceful childhood in Prague vanish.
This first part follows her early years under Nazi occupation — from losing her home and her father’s work to the harsh realities o...

On April 8, 1945, desperate prisoners at Buchenwald sent a secret SOS to the approaching U.S. Army, pleading for rescue before the SS could destroy them. Three days later, American troops liberated the camp and found over 21,000 survivors — among them a 4-year-old boy with tear-filled eyes and a ...

She was called the “Hyena of Death.” At just twenty-one, Maja Buždon became one of the most feared guards of the Ustaša regime in Croatia’s Jasenovac camp.
Behind her calm appearance hid a woman who commanded torture, killings, and unimaginable cruelty toward women and children. This film uncover...

She was called “The Stomping Mare.”
Hermine Braunsteiner, an Austrian woman who dreamed of being a nurse, instead became one of the most feared female guards in the Nazi camps. At Ravensbrück and Majdanek, she beat, whipped, and trampled prisoners to death — including women and children. Survivor...

Beneath her beauty hid one of Stutthof’s most feared guards.
Jenny Wanda Barkmann, known by prisoners as “The Beautiful Spectre,” became a symbol of cruelty inside the Nazi concentration camp. She beat women and children, sent countless to the gas chambers, and watched them die without remorse. H...

She was called “the Hyena of Auschwitz” — a young woman whose beauty concealed terrifying cruelty.
At just 19, Irma Grese became one of the most feared SS guards in Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen. Survivors remembered her whip, her dogs, and her chilling smile as she selected women fo...

Inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, surrounded by death and terror, Magda Hellinger became a prisoner-leader responsible for 30,000 women. Using courage, empathy, and extraordinary presence of mind, she risked her life to shield others from selections, starvation, and the gas chambers — even saving hundre...

Before the number 2318 was tattooed on her arm, Magda Hellinger was a devoted kindergarten teacher and youth leader in Michalovce, Slovakia — a young woman whose kindness and integrity inspired everyone around her. But when Slovakia embraced Nazi ideology, antisemitic laws stripped her community ...

On April 30, 1945, Soviet forces liberated Ravensbrück, the largest Nazi concentration camp for women — a place that had become a symbol of unimaginable suffering and endurance. Behind its barbed wire, over 130,000 women from across Europe — Poles, Russians, Jews, Roma, and political prisoners — ...

In 1930s Germany, the Nazi regime targeted not only Jews and political opponents but also Roma and Sinti people, deemed “racially inferior” and “asocial.” Under the banner of racial hygiene, the Nazis imposed forced sterilization, internment, and slave labor — escalating to systematic deportation...

On 26 February 1943, the first transport of Roma prisoners arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, marking the beginning of one of the most overlooked genocides of World War II. More than 23,000 Roma and Sinti men, women, and children were confined in the so-called “Gypsy Family Camp”, where they endured ...

In 1942, the Nazis built Treblinka, one of the most efficient killing centers of the Holocaust, where nearly a million Jews were murdered. At its helm stood Kurt Franz — the camp’s last commandant, known for his cold cruelty, sadistic games, and a dog trained to maul prisoners on command. Behind ...

In November 1941, Reinhard Heydrich establishes the Theresienstadt Ghetto — a fortress town turned into a façade of “model Jewish life” that hides the machinery of extermination. Behind this cruel deception stands Siegfried Seidl, the camp’s first commandant, whose cold efficiency and brutality c...

Nazis arrested more than 100,000 homosexual men, labeling them “degenerates” and sending thousands to concentration camps marked with the pink triangle. Friedrich von Groszheim endured years of brutality—from Gestapo cells to Neuengamme camp. But long after the war, he continued to face persecuti...