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May 13, 2016 · The Women Partisans Burn Down a House. Learn about partisan tactics with this retelling of an all-female unit's torching of a perpetrator's home.
Jun 23, 2021 · Women contributed to partisan operations across Nazi-occupied Europe in necessary, sometimes critical, ways. Of an estimated 30,000 Jews among the hundreds of thousands of partisans who waged guerilla warfare against Nazi Germany and its collaborators, ten percent were women.
May 17, 2023 · Sara formed a band of female partisans that became indispensable to the male fighters, transforming young village girls into women. On their first mission, they were ordered to throw Molotov cocktails to distract the enemy and allow the partisans to attack.
May 13, 2016 · Former Jewish partisans reflect on women's participation in organized resistance groups during the Holocaust.
Female Jewish partisans with blond hair and blue eyes could “pass” as Aryan. By manipulating ethnic and female stereotypes, they could move around unnoticed in public—ride buses or trains, hold meetings in parks or cafes—and thus transmit messages, smuggle supplies, or escort fugitives into hiding.
The history of women in the Italian Resistance plays a key role for the partisan movement in the fight against fascism during World War II. They fought to regain their country's freedom and justice by holding functions of primary importance.
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Jan 27, 2021 · Learn how Jewish women in Nazi Germany created resistance groups to retain Jewish culture and protect their people.
