Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn began her career investigating the human toll of the Great Depression for Harry Hopkins' Federal Emergency Relief Administration. She covered the Spanish Civil War from Madrid alongside Ernest Hemingway, reporting on the frontline horrors suffered by ordinary civilians.

During World War II, denied press credentials to D-Day as a woman, Gellhorn stowed away in a hospital ship bathroom and went ashore as a stretcher bearer. She was one of the first journalists to report from liberated Dachau, bearing unflinching witness to Nazi atrocities throughout her six-decade career.