CarveHerName18h ago

Very early #OnThisDay, 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette Szabo separately arrive in occupied France to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SEO). Rolfe is a wireless operator, Szabo a courier.

Szabo returns to the UK at the end of April but goes back to France in June 1944 and is captured. Rolfe is captured in July 1944.

They are executed together, by shooting, in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Feb 1945.

#History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons #EuropeanHistory

Show threadRegendans
According to this Wikipedia page a third women was there in the end, also captured and executed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Bloch
Apr 6 at 12:04pmWeb
Show threadCarveHerName10h ago
@regendans Yep. We feature Bloch on the day she arrived: our posts focus on what women did, not what was done to them. So this one is on the day two of the women arrived.