Nancy Wake

  Nancy Wake – “the white mouse”

80 years ago, 6 millions jewish people were murdered.

Nancy Wake, a righteous gentile, was born in 1912 to a poor family in New Zealand.

Later, In 1940, after Wake had moved to Europe and married a millionaire Frenchman, she went to the military recruiting office to be a nurse for the Allied Forces in World War II.At first she began her work in the war as a nurse, Wake transformed her role into a high-level officer trained in espionage and sabotage that led guerilla attacks on Nazi stations.Germany caught wind of her work and put a five million Franc reward out for her capture. The Gestapo called her “The White Mouse” because whenever they seemed to have her cornered, she would somehow escape.

Eventually, In 1943, Wake was on the top of the Gestapo’s most wanted list.

To sum up, Nancy Wake was a real hero. without people like her, our reality would may be look different today.

   Bibliography:

https://curiosity.com/topics/8-little-known-heroes-of-the-holocaust-curiosity/