Margaret Utinsky
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Margaret Elizabeth Utinsky (August 26, 1900—August 30, 1970) was an American who worked with the native resistance movement to provide medicine, food, and other items to aid Allied prisoners of war in the Philippines during World War II. Specifically, she provided medicines such as quinine to the POWs in the Cabanatuan Prison camp. Based out of Manila, she worked in the hospital there, posing as a Lithuanian nurse - Lithuania then being a nonbelligerent country under armed occupation by Nazi Germany. In her apartment, she met with resistance operatives ranging from Filipinos to Germans to Spaniards.[citation needed] She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her actions.
She was portrayed by Connie Nielsen in the 2005 film, The Great Raid.
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