Posts Tagged ‘resistance’
Ab Homburg: Dutch SOE Agent & Spitfire Pilot – Anke ter Doest
The remarkable story of a Dutch resistance fighter who escaped to England twice and became a RAF fighter pilot . In total darkness two young men in a rowing boat paddled frantically in the direction of England, the third passenger sat at the front on the look-out for possible danger. It was a…
Read MoreAmoureux de la Résistance – Rosie Whitehouse
Amoureux de la Résistance – La guerre de ma belle-mère. Marion Müller Par une nuit de pleine lune en mars 1944, trois agents descendirent en parachute sur les hauts plateaux du Languedoc à l’est de Castres, dans le sud de la France. (Version in English click here: https://afheritage.org/in-love-with-the-resistance-by-rosie-whitehouse) L’un était…
Read MoreThe Man with the White Handkerchief – Caroline Broch
The personal memories of a survivor of the tragedy at Oradour in June 1944 – a lesson in history. Although I have spent most of my life in Paris, my family lived in a small town called Saint Junien in the Haute-Vienne region of central France, about 20 mls (32km) from the city of…
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