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The role of women resistance fighters during the Shoah is often overlooked.
Even today, women remain the great forgotten ones in the historiography of the Second World War. Especially Jewish women of all nationalities, many of whom, risking their lives, worked to save their fellow believers.
On the eve of the celebration of Yom Hashoah 2021, we think of them ...

Mila Racine
WIZO France Membre de la résistance

Esther Sawczycka
WIZO Pologne Cheffe de la section féminine clandestine du ghetto de Baronowicze

Rosa Hacker
WIZO Yougoslavie Partisane

Marie Schmolka
WIZO Tchécoslovaquie Femme d'affaires, militante

Hannah Steiner
WIZO Tchécoslovaquie Fondatrice et première Présidente

Gisi Fleischmann
WIZO Slovaquie Fondatrice et première Présidente
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