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File 021Article
Occupied France · 1941–1944
The Limping Lady of Lyon
Turned down by the State Department because she had lost a leg, Virginia Hall became one of the most effective Allied agents in occupied France. The Germans hunted “the limping lady” for years. They never caught her.
File 017Article
Marseille · Auvergne · 1940–1944
The White Mouse
A runaway from Sydney became a journalist in Paris, smuggled Allied airmen out of France, and parachuted back in 1944 to arm thousands of French resistance fighters. The Gestapo never caught her.
File 016Article
Warsaw · 1939–1945
The Names in the Jars
A Warsaw social worker used a pass for typhus inspections to get into the ghetto, and led a network of women that smuggled Jewish children out. She wrote their real names on lists and buried them in jars.
File 005Article
Occupied France · 1943–1944
Madeleine: The Last Radio in Paris
A children’s author trained as a wireless operator, Noor Inayat Khan kept transmitting to London for more than three months after her network was destroyed around her.
File 003Article
Belgium · France · Spain · 1941–1943
Dédée and the Line Through the Pyrenees
At twenty-four, Andrée de Jongh walked a British soldier from Brussels to Spain and then talked the British into funding her. The Comet Line she built brought more than seven hundred Allied servicemen home.
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Resistance networks
Noor Inayat Khan
A children's book author became the last spy in Paris — her last word was "Liberté"
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Resistance networks
Virginia Hall
The most dangerous Allied spy had a wooden leg — the Gestapo never caught her
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Resistance networks
Irena Sendler
The buried jars that held the names of 2,500 rescued children
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Resistance networks
Nancy Wake
The woman the Nazis couldn't catch