CarveHerName1d 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 threadPlutonicXT23h ago
@CarveHerName which photo is which, please?
Show threadChildless Bambino 22h ago
@PlutonicXT @CarveHerName the ALT text on each photo says who is who. The one looking to left is Lillian, looking right is Violette
Show threadPlutonicXT
@kendricklmao8 @CarveHerName Thanks, I'm new to Mastodon, never noticed ALT. Violette looks a bit like Ingrid Bergman, a beauty and a saint.
Apr 6 at 2:17pmWeb
Show threadChildless Bambino 19h ago
@PlutonicXT @CarveHerName no worries! Enjoy your time here!
Show threadCarveHerName17h ago
@PlutonicXT @kendricklmao8 we always use alt text! As well as meaning the images are described for people dependant on assistive tech like screen readers, it also means we don’t have to struggle as much to caption images in the post’s text.