Mary Rostad was only sixteen years old when Nazis conquered her home city of Brussels in 1940. She joined the resistance movement, serving in Belgium and later France, as a courier of underground documents. Adopting the code name "Squirrel," she walked over one thousand miles in frigid temperatures, far away from her home and her family to report on the movement of German troops. This heroic story challenges us to consider how we would act if faced with adversity. Mireille Rostadwas sixteen years old when the Nazis invaded her hometown of Brussels, Belgium. Using a false ID and a relying on a system of underground networks established by the resistance, she walked to France where she served as a medic and distributed clandestine newspapers. She served in the resistance for the remainder of the war using the code name "Squirrel." After the war she worked in counterintelligence in General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Frankfurt headquarters. She is the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
