Friday, July 31, 2015

RESISTANCE WOMEN IN OTHER OCCUPIED COUNTRIES

Resistance movements during WWII occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation, disinformation and propaganda to hiding downed pilots and outright warfare.

Among the most notable Resistance movements were the Polish Resistance, including the Polish Home Army, Leśni and the whole Polish Underground State; the Soviet partisansItalian Resistenza; French Resistance; Yugoslav PartisansBelgian ResistanceNorwegian ResistanceGreek Resistance; and Dutch Resistance.

Many countries had resistance movements dedicated to fighting the Axis invaders, and Germany itself also had an anti-Nazi movement (Widerstand). Although Britain was not occupied during the war, the British made complex preparations for a British resistance movement.

There were also resistance movements fighting against the Allied invaders. In Italian East Africa, after the Italian forces were defeated during the East African Campaign, some Italians participated in a guerrilla war against the British. The German Nazi resistance movement ("Werwolf") never amounted to much. The "Forest Brothers" of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania included many fighters who operated against the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States into the 1960s.

THE WOMEN ...
 

Austria
Annexed Mar 1938








"Then came the morning, and since I was block elder, I was allowed to go to the camp street. We went hand in hand. I'll never find out whether she knew that this was the end. I can still see Kathe sitting on the truck, in the bitter cold, her blue eyes directed at us, waving for a last goodbye." --Rosa Jochmann


Czechoslovakia
Annexed Aug 1939

Sudetenland
Occupied Oct 1938











Western Poland
Occupied Sep 1939

Eastern Poland,
Eastonia, Latvia,
Lithuania
Occupied Jun 1941













Poland
Lithuania


Denmark
Occupied Apr 1940









Norway
Occupied Apr 1940









Belgium &
Luxembourg
Occupied May 1940











Netherlands
Occupied May 1940









France
Occupied May 1940
See Biographies









Yugoslavia
Occupied Apr 1941







Greece
Occupied Apr 1941









Soviet Union
Invaded Jun 1941










Italy
Occupied Sep 1943








  • Orsola Biasutti
  • Toto Koopman (1908-1991)
  • Andreini Morandi-Michelozzi

GERMANY (Widerstand)

MORE SISTERS IN THE STRUGGLE ...

Albania
Belarus
Bulgaria
  • Elena Lagadinova
Hungary
Ukraine