Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC (1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British resistance agent in France in World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers, especially those …

Marseille (/ m ɑːr ˈ s eɪ / mar-SAY, French: (), locally [maχˈsɛjə] (); also spelled in English as Marseilles; Occitan: Marselha [maʀˈsejɔ, -ˈsijɔ]) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.Situated in the camargue region of southern France, it is located on the coast of the Gulf of Lion, part of the ...

Eliane Plewman, British WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1917) W. Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator (b. 1872) September 14. Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1882) John Kenneth Macalister, Canadian WWII hero (b. 1914) Michael Graf von Matuschka, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1888)

Eliane Plewman (1917–1944), SOE operative: Croix de guerre; Germaine Ribière (1917–1999), Righteous among the Nations; Élise Rivet (1890–1945), nun executed by Nazis for aiding the resistance; Lilian Rolfe (1914–1945), SOE agent executed by the Nazis; Odette Sansom (1912–1995), SOE operative: George Cross, MBE, Legion of Honor

Bob Maloubier, né le 2 février 1923 à Neuilly-sur-Seine et mort le 20 avril 2015 à Paris [1], fut, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un agent secret français du Special Operations Executive britannique. À ce titre, il fut d'abord parachuté clandestinement deux fois en France occupée comme saboteur dans le réseau SALESMAN de Philippe Liewer, dans la région de Rouen au …

Les femmes sont bien représentées à Combat Zone nord [6] dont l'un des piliers est l'école des surintendantes d'usine.Lors de la réorganisation de ce mouvement, plusieurs d'entre elles sont au comité directeur: Jane Sivadon, Elizabeth Dussauze et Odile Kienlen. Le Mouvement de libération nationale est cofondé par Berty Albrecht, ancienne de l'école des surintendantes.

Sonia Olschanezky (25 December 1923 – 6 July 1944) was a member of the French Resistance and the Special Operations Executive during World War II. Olschanezky was a member of the SOE's Juggler circuit in occupied France where she operated as a courier until she was arrested by the Gestapo and was subsequently executed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

Early life. Atkins was born Vera May Rosenberg in Galați, Kingdom of Romania, to Max Rosenberg (d. 1932), a German-Jewish father, and his British-Jewish wife, Zefra Hilda, known as Hilda (d. 1947). She had two brothers. Atkins briefly attended the Sorbonne in Paris to study modern languages and a finishing school at Lausanne, where she indulged her passion for …

Noor Un Nisa Inayat Khan, née le 1 er janvier 1914 au Kremlin de Moscou en Russie et morte le 13 septembre 1944 au camp de Dachau en Allemagne, est un agent secret britannique du Special Operations Executive (SOE), section F, qui se distingua durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.Premier agent féminin à être envoyé en France comme opérateur radio, elle rejoignit …

Le Special Operations Executive (SOE, « Direction des opérations spéciales ») est un service secret britannique qui opère pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.Le SOE est créé le 19-22 juillet 1940 par Winston Churchill et dissous le 30 juin 1946.Il a pour mission de soutenir les divers mouvements de résistance des pays d'Europe occupés par l'Allemagne et l'Italie et, …