Vera Atkins Memorial
The fallen agents
OLSCHAMEZKY Sonia, Sous Lieutenant, French Forces. Executed 6th July 1944 aged 20 at Dachau.
Comemorated on the memorial plaque, crematorium, Struthof-Natzweiler Camp,Alsace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Olschanezky
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SOEolschanesky.htm
INAYAT-KHAN Noor-un-Nisa (Nora) Section Officer 9901, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, seconded to Women's Transport Service, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry attached to the Special Operations Executive, executed 13th September 1944. Mentioned in Despatches Daughter of Mrs. O. R. Inayat-Khan, of Oxford. The London Gazette of 15th April, 1949, gives the following details: Assistant Section Officer Nora Inayat-Khan was the first woman operator to be sent into enemy-occupied France, on 16th June, 1943. During the weeks immediately following her arrival, the Gestapo made mass arrests among the Paris Resistance Groups, to which she was detailed. She refused to abandon what had become the most important and dangerous post in France, and did excellent work which earned her a posthumous Mention in Despatches. After three and a half months she was betrayed to the Gestapo. They asked her to co-operate in the use of her codes which they discovered, but she refused and gave them no information of any kind. She twice attempted to escape, and when she refused to promise not to make any further attempts, she was sent to Germany "for safe custody"-first to Karlsruhe, then to Pfersheim, where again she refused to give any information as to her work or her colleagues. On 12th September, 1944 she was taken with three others to Dachau concentration camp, where on arrival she was taken into the crematorium and shot. Assistant Section Officer Inayat-Khan displayed the most conspicuous courage, both moral and physical, over a period of more than twelve months. Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey
http://www.specialforcesroh.com/browse.php?mode=viewiroll&rollid=3808
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan
ROLFE Lilian Vera, Section Officer 9907, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, attached to the Special Operations Executive, executed 5th February 1945. Awarded the Croix de Guerre and Palme. Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_Rolfe
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