Heroic Women of WWII - Andrée Peel

French Resistance hero Andrée Peel -- who was born on February 3, 1905 -- was being lined up to be executed by a Nazi firing squad when soldiers from the U.S. Army's 9th Armored Infantry Battalion arrived to liberate Buchenwald, the notorious Nazi concentration camp. The French beautician known as "Agent Rose," who was among the more than 21,000 prisoners freed by American troops, had rescued over 100 British and American pilots shot down over France until she was arrested by the Gestapo shortly after D-Day. To read the incredible story of this hero who became one of the most highly decorated women to survive WWII, visit https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=22809

After the German invasion, she joined the resistance and was involved in distributing secret newspapers, but was later appointed head of an under-section of the resistance.^[2] She and her team used torches to guide allied planes to improvised landing strips, and helped airmen who had landed in France to escape onto submarines and gunboats, saving the lives of more than one hundred soldiers and airmen.^[3][4]

She was arrested in Paris in 1944 and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was later transferred to the concentration camp at Buchenwald where she was being lined up to be shot by firing squad when the US Army arrived to liberate the prisoners. During this time she also survived meningitis.^[5]

For several excellent books about real-life women of the Resistance for adult readers, we recommend "The Nine" (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-nine), "All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days" (https://www.amightygirl.com/frequent-troubles-of-our-days), "The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism" (https://www.amightygirl.com/a-house-in-the-mountains), "A Woman of No Importance" (https://www.amightygirl.com/a-woman-of-no-importance), and "D-Day Girls" (https://www.amightygirl.com/d-day-girls)For adults who love to read about heroic women of WWII, you can find more of the best fiction and non-fiction books in our blog post, "Telling Her Story: 40 Books for Adult Readers About Women Heroes of WWII," at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=24501

For a fascinating book about both famous and little known women heroes of WWII for both teens and adults, ages 12 and up, we highly recommend "Women Heroes of World War II: 32 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue," for teens and adults, at https://www.amightygirl.com/women-heroes-of-world-war-ii

For books for children and teens about girls and women involved in WWII resistance movements, we recommend "Jars of Hope" for ages 7 to 10 (https://www.amightygirl.com/jars-of-hope), "The Light of Days" for ages 10 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/light-days-young-readers), "Resistance" for ages 12 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/resistance), "In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer" for ages 14 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/in-my-hands)