CARVE HER NAME WITH PRIDE: THE STORY OF VIOLETTE SZABO (PB)

Violette Szabo, a member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, was recruited into the SOE and underwent secret agent training. On June 7th, 1944, at the age of 22, Sabzo was parachuted into Limoges. Her task was to co-ordinate the work of the French Resistance in the area in the first days after D-Day. She was captured by the SS 'Das Reich' Panzer Division and handed over to the Gestapo in Paris for interrogation. From Paris, Szabo was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp where she was executed in January 1945. She was posthumously awarded The George Cross and the Croix de Guerre.