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Odette Marie Léonie Céline Hallowes, GC, MBE (née Brailly; 28 April 1912 – 13 March 1995), also known as Odette Churchill and Odette Sansom, code named Lise, was an agent for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France during the Second World War.
14 de may. de 2020 · Learn about the life and achievements of Odette Hallowes, the most highly-decorated spy of the Second World War and the first woman to be awarded the George Cross in the UK. Hear her story from her granddaughter and the audio clips of her ordeal in Nazi prison.
13 de dic. de 2015 · Odette fue una de las espías británicas más condecoradas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que colaboró con la resistencia francesa y fue torturada por los nazis. Su historia se relaciona con el primer ministro Winston Churchill, con quien se casó tras la guerra.
21 de mar. de 1995 · Odette Hallowes, a British agent tortured by the Gestapo in World War II and the first woman awarded the George Cross, died at her home in Walton-on-Thames on March 13. She was 82.
15 de ene. de 2019 · Odette was a courier for the SPINDLE circuit of Special Operations Executive (SOE), the secret sabotage outfit Winston Churchill had charged to “set Europe ablaze.”
17 de mar. de 1995 · Odette Hallowes was a French-born British agent who worked with SOE in France during the Second World War. She was captured, tortured and imprisoned by the Gestapo, but refused to betray her comrades and received a George Cross for her courage.
Odette Sansom was a French-born SOE agent who worked in France during the Second World War. She was captured, tortured and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she saved many agents by refusing to betray them.
