Holocaust Remembrance Day – Righteous Gentiles

Nancy Wake

Nancy wake (female) was born in 1912 in new zealand and died in 2011 right before her 99th birthday , her family was poor, she and her family were a part of a tribe called Ngāti Māhanga.

in 1940 Wake joined to the military recruiting office to be a nurse for the allied forces in world war 2 after she married a millionaire Frenchman.

Nancy Wake- Achievemens

In 1940 after Nancy joined the army she helped Allied airmen evade capture by the Germans and escape to neutral Spain. in 1943 the Geremans became aware of her therefore she run to Britain and then she  joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE)  and was trained in several programs. Nancy escaped the Nazis for several times, and for that she got the nickname “the white mouse”.

   Bibliography

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P332

https://curiosity.com/topics/how-nancy-wake-became-the-gestapos-most-wanted-in-wwii-curiosity/