resistance: Quick Facts
Facts
| Also Known As | Underground |
|---|---|
| Date | c. September 2, 1939 - c. May 8, 1945 |
| Location | Denmark • France • Greece • Poland • Ukraine |
| Context | Third Reich • World War II |
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Josip Broz Tito
president of Yugoslavia
Noor Inayat Khan
British resistance agent
Marc Bloch
French historian
Michel Thomas
linguist and teacher
Charles Pasqua
French politician
Avrom Sutzkever
Israeli writer
Mordecai Anielewicz
Jewish resistance leader
Yitzhak Zuckerman
Polish hero
Simone Weil
French philosopher
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
French politician
St. Maksymilian Maria Kolbe
Polish martyr
Georges Bidault
prime minister of France
Paul Rivet
French anthropologist
Carl Goerdeler
German politician
Dragoljub Mihailović
Yugoslavian resistance leader
Robert Doisneau
French photographer
Christian X
king of Denmark
Marie-Pierre Koenig
French military officer
Pierre Brossolette
French journalist
Mieczysław Moczar
Polish politician