1921-1945

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1921-1945

Carve her name with pride

the story of Violette Szabo
2011
"Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo who was born in Paris in 1921 to an English motorcar dealer, and a French mother. She met and married Etienne Szabo, a captain in the French Foreign Legion in 1940. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, Tania, her husband died at El Alamein. She became a FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) and was recruited into the SOE and underwent secret agent training. Her first trip to France was completed successfully even though she was arrested and then released by the French Police. On June 7th, 1944, Szabo was parachuted into Limoges. Her task was to coordinate the work of the French Resistance in the area in the first days after D-Day. She was captured by the SS Das Reich Panzer Division and handed over to the Gestapo in Paris for interrogation. From Paris, Violette Szabo was sent to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp where she was executed in January 1945. She was only 23 and for her courage was posthumously awarded The George Cross and the Croix de Guerre"--Publisher description.
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At the edge of the abyss

a concentration camp diary, 1943-1944
2012
First published in 1977, this is the diary of a Jewish prisoner who was in a German concentration camp during World War II. It weaves poetry and powerful insights into the emotional life of a camp prisoner. David Koker was twenty-one when he was transported to the Vught Concentration Camp in 1943 and he recorded his thoughts, feelings, and observations almost daily. He was able to smuggle 73,000 words our of the camp, almost a year's worth of entries. In June 1944 he was sent to Auschwitz, then to Langenbielan in August 1944, and on to Dachau in February 1945. He did not survive the journey to Dachau.
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