Location
London, UK
Couriers
Couriers
Action
English
Colour
120 Min
In a regional Gestapo headquarters in 1941, three young women with immaculate blonde hair and blue eyes are the life and soul of the party. Dancing raucously; drinking and laughing without constraint, officers are drawn towards them like moths to a flame. That night, the three are immortalised together in a photograph.
Today, almost 85 years later, this very photograph sits on a wall in Yad Vashem; the Global Centre for Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem - for these seemingly ‘Aryan’ women were anything but. They were Jewish spies; part of a network of Kashariot, or “Couriers”, who didn’t conform to the Nazi eugenic ‘Jewish’ profile, and whose looks enabled them to become the backbone of some of the strongest resistance networks in WWII.
Where Jewish men were ultimately easy to identify, these Jewish women could pass unseen, in plain sight, outside the ghetto, running weapons; explosives; even people between Jewish communities to confound and disrupt the Nazi death machine. For every instance of Jewish armed resistance in the war, from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to the bombing of Auschwitz, the foundations were laid - and often the major action executed - by these few fearless women. And in so doing, they saved tens of thousands of lives.
Drawing from astonishing first hand testimony, this story will reveal the incredible true stories of these forgotten women, who have all but fallen out of history, who refused to go “like lambs to the slaughter”.
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