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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.
17 de mar. de 1995 · Odette Hallowes became a national heroine for her work with French wartime Resistance, and for standing up to torture by the Gestapo.
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 age...
14 de may. de 2020 · Odette was born in Northern France in 1912, and was only six years old when her Father, Florentin Brailly, was killed fighting in the French town of Verdun shortly before the Armistice in 1918.
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.
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