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Colette Marin-Catherine (born 25 April 1929), is a French resistance fighter from Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse. She joined the Resistance in the summer of 1944 where she was a reconnaissance agent and then a nurse after the Normandy landings; also resistant, her brother Jean-Pierre Catherine was arrested in 1943 and died in the Mittelbau-Dora ...
Apr 12, 2021 · It tells the story of Colette Marin-Catherine, an elegant, stoic 90-year-old woman, member of a French Resistance family, who lost her older brother Jean Pierre in the Nordhausen slave-labor...
Jun 9, 2019 · Colette Marin-Catherine was 16-years-old when the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.
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May 3, 2021 · During the Nazi occupation of France, 14-year-old Colette Marin-Catherine joined the French resistance alongside her family. ‘We were playing cat and mouse. And playing with fire. Or rather, fire was playing with us,’ Marin-Catherine, now 92, recalls.
Apr 26, 2021 · The deeply emotional 25-minute film by director Anthony Giacchino won the Oscar in the best short documentary category on Sunday night, the 92nd birthday of its protagonist Colette...
Apr 25, 2021 · Tears are running down the cheeks of Colette Marin-Catherine – who turns 92 on April 25, the day of the Oscars ceremony – as she grips the arm of 19-year-old history student Lucie Fouble....
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Together with aspiring historian Lucie Fouble, 90-year-old French Resistance fighter Colette Marin-Catherine travels to Nordhausen to visit Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. Until then, she had avoided visiting the place where her brother, Jean-Pierre, died.
