Course Description

Instructor: Joann Panza

This course will explore government agencies created in World War II (Office of Strategic Services and Special Operations Executive) specifically to perform undercover operations with an emphasis on their most notable female spies and the missions they led.

We will explore training, tactics, successes, and the price paid for their work. We will also discuss the Resistance movement as it relates to their work.

Bio: As a child, I grew up in a community of Hungarian Jews who survived the horrors of concentration camps. As an adult in the healthcare profession, I had the privilege of treating many WWII veterans. The accounts of their experiences inspired many years of independent research culminating recently into the incredible history of female spies. It is my desire to share the story of the women who helped defeat Hitler and make them household names.