Featured Life Story: Violette Szabo: The Young Mother Who Defied the Nazis

Violette Szabo (1921–1945) was just 23 when she traded an ordinary life for extraordinary heroism. Widowed during the war, she joined Churchill’s Special Operations Executive and parachuted into occupied France to rally the Resistance and disrupt enemy lines. Captured on her second mission, she endured torture and imprisonment without betraying a single secret. Executed at Ravensbrück, she was posthumously awarded the George Cross — her name forever linked with courage, sacrifice, and defiance. Read more....