(In Order of Appearance)
Renia Kukiełka: born in Jędrzejów, a courier for Freedom in Będzin.
Sarah Kukiełka: Renia’s older sister, a Freedom comrade who takes care of Jewish orphans in Będzin.
Zivia Lubetkin: born in Byten, a Freedom leader in the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) and the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
Frumka Płotnicka: born in Pinsk, a Freedom comrade who leads the fighting organization in Będzin.
Hantze Płotnicka (pronounced in English as Han-che): Frumka’s younger sister, also a Freedom leader and courier.
Tosia Altman: a leader of The Young Guard and one of its most active couriers, based in Warsaw.
Vladka Meed (nee Feigele Peltel): a Bundist courier in Warsaw.
Chajka Klinger (pronounced in English as Hay-ka): a leader of The Young Guard and the fighting organization in Będzin.
Gusta Davidson: a courier and leader of Akiva, based in Kraków.
Hela Schüpper: a courier for Akiva, based in Kraków.
Bela Hazan: a Freedom courier, based in Grodno, Vilna, Białystok. Worked with Lonka Kozibrodska and Tema Schneiderman.
Chasia Bielicka (pronounced in English as Has-ia) and Chaika Grossman (pronounced Hay-ka): two Young Guard couriers who are part of a ring of anti-Fascist operatives in Białystok.
Ruzka Korczak (pronounced in English as Rush-ka): a leader of The Young Guard in Vilna’s fighting organization (FPO) and a partisan leader in the forests.
Vitka Kempner: a leader of The Young Guard in Vilna’s fighting organization (FPO) and a partisan leader in the forests.
Zelda Treger: a Young Guard courier based in Vilna and the forests.
Faye Schulman: a photographer who becomes a partisan nurse and fighter.
Anna Heilman: an assimilated Warsaw Young Guard member who takes part in the resistance at Auschwitz.