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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.
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. Her family...
17 de mar. de 1995 · News People. OBITUARY : Odette Hallowes. M. R. D. Foot. Friday 17 March 1995 01:02 GMT. Comments. For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking...
14 de may. de 2020 · After the Gestapo Officers realised that they could not get any useful information out of Odette, they condemned her to death on two counts. Odette famously stood up to the Gestapos, defiantly responding: “Then you will have to make up your mind on what count I am to be executed, because I can only die once.”
15 de ene. de 2019 · Odette’s medals can be seen today in her special display at the Imperial War Museum. Odette, who by that time had married her third husband and become Odette Hallowes, died in 1995 at the...
She was brutally tortured by the Gestapo for information on her fellow agents. Despite having all her toenails pulled out and a red hot poker placed on her back, she told them nothing. To every question Sansom simply replied: 'I have nothing to say'. Her brave endurance saved the lives of many agents.
Hace 2 días · Hallowes then married another former SOE member, Geoffrey, and they were together until she died in 1995, aged 82, at home in Surrey. Her postwar life, it seems, was a happy and well-decorated one. There was a film, Odette, made about her in 1950, and Hallowes was awarded an MBE, the George Cross and the French equivalent, the Légion d’honneur.
