Marthe cohn biography definition

          Marthe Hoffnung Cohn was....

          Marthe Cohn of Palos Verdes was a spy during World War II and went behind enemy lines into Germany for the French army.

        1. Risking her life for two years as a spy in Nazi Germany, Rancho Palos Verdes resident Marthe Cohn quietly helped win World War II.
        2. Marthe Hoffnung Cohn was.
        3. Spy for France during the Second World War.
        4. Marthe Cohn in the documentary “Chichinette: How I Accidentally Became a Spy,” which details her two years as a spy in Nazi Germany during World War II.

          5. Marthe Cohn

          French espionage agent

          Marthe Cohn

          Born

          Marthe Hoffnung


          (1920-04-13) 13 April 1920 (age 104)

          Metz, France

          Occupation(s)Nurse, author
          AwardsLegion of Honour – Knight (2002)

          Marthe Hoffnung Cohn (born 13 April 1920) is a French author,[1][2] nurse, former spy and Holocaust survivor.

          She wrote about her experiences as a spy during the Holocaust in the book Behind Enemy Lines.

          Early life

          On 13 April 1920, Marthe Cohn was born as Marthe Hoffnung in Metz, France. She was born into an Orthodox Jewish family as one of seven children.

          Cohn, born Marthe Hoffnung, shared her story of being a spy in the intelligence service for the French army during the Holocaust.

          Her family lived near the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. As the Nazi occupation escalated, her sister was sent to Auschwitz while her family fled to the south of France just after the reannexation of Alsace-Lorraine by France in 1918.

          Metz had been a German possession from 1871 to 1918, acquired as part of Alsace-Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian war and relinquished