Marthe Cohn
Auteur de Derrière les lignes ennemies. Une espionne juive dans l'Allemagne nazie
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Marthe Cohn
Behind Enemy Lines 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Cohn, Marthe
- Date de naissance
- 1920-04-13
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- France
- Lieu de naissance
- Metz, France
- Lieux de résidence
- Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA
Poitiers, France
Paris, France
Geneva, Switzerland - Professions
- nurse
army nurse
intelligence agent
Holocaust survivor
memoirist
nurse-anesthetist (tout afficher 7)
public speaker - Organisations
- French Army
- Prix et distinctions
- Croix de Guerre (1945)
Legion d'Honneur (Chevalier, 2005)
Medaille Militaire (1999)
Medaille de Reconnaissance de la Nation (2006) - Courte biographie
- Marthe Cohn, née Hoffnung, was born to a large Jewish family in Metz, France. She grew up equally fluent in French and German. Just before the outbreak of World War II, the family was forced by the French government to leave their home and move to Poitiers. Marthe attended a nursing school there run by the Red Cross. With the Nazi occupation of France, however, Marthe was forced to quit school at the end of her first year. In 1942, after her sister Stéphanie was arrested by the Gestapo, Marthe organized an escape for herself, her parents, and her five other siblings to the Vichy zone with new identity cards. Stéphanie was deported to the death camp at Auschwitz and they never saw her again. Marthe's fianceé, Jacques Delaunay, a 21-year-old medical student, was arrested and shot in October 1943 for working with the Resistance. The following month, she managed to complete her nursing studies in Marseille. She tried without success to join the Resistance. In November 1944, after the liberation of Paris, she enlisted in the French Army and became a member of the intelligence service of the French 151st Infantry Regiment, 1st Army. She went behind enemy lines into Germany and used her perfect language skills to pose as a German nurse searching for her missing POW boyfriend. She traveled about, collecting information on troop movements critical to the Allies, and then crawled back across the Swiss border under barbed wire to relay what she learned. In January 1946, after receiving the Croix de Guerre, she volunteered for the medical service in French Indochina (present day Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia), which was still at war. Two years later, she returned to France to pursue her nursing career. In 1953, while studying in Geneva, she met an American medical student, Major L. Cohn. They married and moved to the USA in 1956 and had two sons. They worked together for many years, he as an anesthesiologist and she as a nurse-anesthetist. She received other top decorations from the French government, including the Légion d'honneur and Médaille militaire. In 2002, she published her memoir written with Wendy Holden, Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany. She has crisscrossed the country to speak publicly of her experiences.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 220
- Popularité
- #101,715
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 13
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 1