Krystyna Skarbek, a Polish woman, was in Ethiopia when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. Skarbek’s patriotism compelled her to participate in anti-Nazi efforts, so she traveled to London and volunteered to work as a spy. With the alias Christine Granville, she posed as a journalist in Budapest, working her way into Poland to sneak in documents and collect intelligence to bring back to London. On one of Skarbek’s numerous missions, the Gestapo arrested and interrogated her. By faking a cough and biting her own tongue to draw blood, she convinced them that she had tuberculosis, so they released her. Skarbek was heroic because her courage pushed her to act in a dangerous time, almost getting herself killed on multiple occasions. In spite of
