Krystyna Skarbek was a Polish spy. After joining the Secret Intelligence Service in 1939, she was able to convince Jan Marusarz, a Polish Olympic skier, to escort her from Hungary to Poland. They had to go across the Tatra Mountains, in temperatures as low as -20 F to get into Poland. Once in Poland they were able to make contact with agents as well as a few resistance groups. Unfortunately none of them would do much for the British. Krystyna then went and smuggled Polish airmen to Yugoslavia, which was neutral during that time, so they could help with the war effort. Her luck almost ran out in 1941, when she was captured by the Germans. She was able to bite her tongue so that she could bleed from her mouth, where she then told the Germans that she had tuberculosis. Luckily for her she had worked in an auto shop and emissions back then were terrible so the scars on her lungs confirmed her fake story. The Germans then released her after taking X-rays. After she was released she fled to England. In 1944, the Special Operations Executive sent her to Southern France. After successfully scaling a 2,000 feet cliff she reached Col de Larche fort, convincing the militia of 200 Poles to surrender. On June 15, 1952, she was stabbed to death.
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Madeleine Damerment was a member of the French resistance. Originally her job was to rescue downed British pilots and bring them back to France. Then in 1942, she fleed to England upon getting a tip that one of the members of her group betrayed them. When she got to England she volunteered to work with the SOE (Special Operations Executive). She then trained as a courier for the "bricklayer" network. On February 28, 1944 in the middle of the night, her and two other agents parachuted into a field, right around the city of Chartres, France. Unfortunately, someone had tipped off the Gestapo about their plan and they were arrested upon landing. They were then taken to Paris, to the Gestapo headquarters, and were all subjected to examination and torture. On May 12, 1944, the group along with some other Captured SOE agents were taken to Karlsruhe a civilian women's prison camp in Germany. Madeleine was held there until September 11, when she was abruptly taken to Dachau, with three other female agents. Two days later on September 13, the four women were taken to a small courtyard and were executed. After the war Madeleine Damerment was awarded by her government the: Legion of Honor Croix de Guerre, the King's Commendation for Brave Conduct, and the Resistance Medal.