5 accounts found for “Gestapo”
Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki, Polish Secret Army / Home Army
In September 1940, Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki deliberately got himself arrested by the Nazis to be transported to Auschwitz, where he spent nearly th...
Irena Sendler ("Jolanta"), Polish Social Worker, Żegota operative
Operating as "Jolanta," Polish social worker Irena Sendler smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto in suitcases, crates, toolboxes, and under pi...
Jozef Gabčík & Jan Kubiš, SOE-trained Czech paratroopers
Reinhard Heydrich chaired the Wannsee Conference, architected the Holocaust, and was considered the most dangerous man in the Third Reich after Hitler. In May 1...
Virginia Hall, SOE "Marie" / OSS Operative
A Baltimore-born woman with a prosthetic leg she named "Cuthbert" organized the most effective SOE resistance networks in occupied France, evading the Gestapo f...
Pastor André Trocmé & Magda Trocmé, village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
The tiny Huguenot village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in the Auvergne region sheltered an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 Jewish and other refugees during the German occu...