A number of Christian women are recalled as martyrs of the Second World War struggle against Nazism . Catholic Poland suffered under Nazi occupation , and a number of women are recognised for their heroism during the period : including 8 religious sisters and several laywomen of Poland 's 108 Martyrs of World War II and the 11 Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth murdered by the Gestapo in 1943 and known as the Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek . Swedish born Elisabeth Hesselblad was listed among the “ righteous among the nations ” by Yad Vashem for her religious institute 's work assisting Jews escape The Holocaust . She and two British women , Mother Riccarda Beauchamp Hambrough and Sister Katherine Flanagan have been beatified for reviving the Swedish Bridgettine Order of nuns and hiding scores of Jewish families in their convent during Rome 's period of occupation under the Nazis
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Women in Church history