Upcoming Digital Events | Women Spies in WWII
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Women in World War II: The Spies They Never Saw Coming
Wednesday, March 10, 9:30 a.m. ET
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In this program marking Women’s
History Month, learn how women spies turned prejudice and society’s low
expectations of them into weapons that hid their critical work on behalf
of the Allies.
Remind
me >>
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Thursday, March 18, 2021, 7 p.m. ET
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My Name Is Sara During Women's History Month, we
will honor the strength and determination of one young woman to survive
the Holocaust and examine the challenges that women faced then, and still
encounter in war-torn societies today. Register
today >>
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Photos: Top image, left to right, Noor Inayat Khan (Imperial War Museums),
Josephine Baker (Library
of Congress), and Virginia Hall (Lorna Catling Collection); Syrian
refugees walk several miles to cross the border into Jordan where they are
transported to Zaatari refugee camp in 2014. Lucian Perkins for the US Holocaust Memorial
Museum; Film still from My
Name is Sara featuring Zuzanna Surowy, the actress who portrays
Sara Guralnik. Courtesy
of Robert Palka
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