Dame Mary Barraco, World War II resistance fighter who suffered Nazi torture, dies in Virginia...

Mary Sigillo Barraco never forgot what happened to her inside a Gestapo torture cell.
She couldn’t forget her beatings if she tried, for she bore the mental and physical scars for the rest of her life.

She’d landed there at just 19 after fighting the Nazi regime every way she could: flirting with guards to rescue prisoners of war, working on an underground newspaper, sheltering Jewish refugees, smuggling false passports. American born but raised in Belgium, Barraco joined the Belgian Resistance from the earliest days of World War II. And when she got out of prison, she joined right back again.