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She wore a Nazi armband to move freely through the Warsaw Ghetto. She buried suitcases containing children's identities in a garden. She was beaten so severely by the Gestapo that she could not walk. And she never revealed a single name.

In 1943, the Nazi German forces uncovered mass graves at Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia, containing the bodies of approximately 4,400 Polish officers who had been captured by the Soviet Union during the 1939 invasion of Poland. The Polish Underground (Home Army) independently investigated the site and confirmed that it was the Soviets -- not the Germans -- who had committed the massacre. Stalin responded by breaking relations with the Polish government-in-exile and suppressing all information about the massacre. The Soviet Union maintained the official fiction that Germany had committed the killings until 1990.