Francine Agazarian suffered from survivor’s guilt about her husband's death. In 1967, she visited Flossenburg. Vera Atkins, a senior official of SOE, consoled and supported her with money for many years. She wrote to Atkins: "For many years I felt it was not right that I was alive. I should have gone when they did and in the same manner.” Francine Agazarian died on June 24, 1998 at the age of 85. (4/4)

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Jack Agazarian, however, returned to France in July, was later captured, imprisoned in solitary confinement at Flossenburg concentration camp, & executed by the Germans on March 29, 1945 at the age of 29. The collapse of the PHYSICIAN circuit (also called the PROSPER circuit based on Francis Suttill’s code-name) remains one of the most tragic and contested stories of SOE. Francine Agazarian survived the war & lived in London. (3/4)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_SOE%27s_Prosper_Network

Jack Agazarian was suspicious of the circuit’s air operations officer, Henri Déricourt, leading to a conflict with the circuit’s organizer, Francis Suttill, On the night of June 16, 1943, Francine & Jack Agazarian returned to England on a Lysander flight. It was fortunate timing as the Germans began arresting SOE agents in the circuit less than a week later (& Déricourt is widely believed to have been a double agent). (2/4)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Agazarian

Using the code name Nadine, she became a radio operator for the HISTORIAN circuit (led by George Wilkinson) based in Orleans. She was inserted into German occupied France on April 5, 1944, dropped off by Lysander at a clandestine airfield near near Tours. After 4 months in France, she was captured by the Germans on July 31, 1944. In late Jan 1945, she was executed at Ravensbruck concentration camp. (3/3)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_Rolfe

At the start of WW2, Lilian Rolfe was working for the British Embassy where part of her job was monitoring German ship movements in & out of Rio de Janeiro. In Feb, 1943, Lilian Rolfe & her family returned to Britain. Enroute her ship was badly damaged probably by a German mine. After arriving In England she joined the WAAF on May 16, 1943. The SOE recruited her due to her facility with languages & she joined on Nov 24, 1943. (2/3)

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https://doyleglass.com/2025/12/16/the-quiet-courage-of-lilian-rolfe-a-sisterhood-in-the-shadows/