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Towards the end of 1935, she married Hilary Nussbaum, who was of Russian Jewish descent (he later changed his name to Norwood), a chemistry teacher, teachers' trades union official, and lifelong communist.
Apr 23, 2019 · In 1999, an 87-year-old British woman held a press conference in front of her home to announce that for nearly four decades, she’d worked as a spy for the Soviet Union. In fact, Melita Norwood ...
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Melita Norwood. Melita Sirnis was born at 402 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, on 25th March, 1912. Her father, Alexander Sirnis (1881–1918), had been born in Latvia and had worked for Leo Tolstoy, before being exiled overseas. He became estate manager for Vladimir Chertkov, Tolstoy's literary executor, who was living in the small Hampshire ...
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Jan 18, 2023 · The unlikely spy – how pensioner Melita Norwood passed nuclear secrets to the Russians | Shropshire Star. With her bottle-base thick glasses, lank, grey hair tamed by clips and penchant for dowdy...
Aug 5, 2022 · During this period, she also married her fiancé, Hilary Nussbaum, who later anglicised he and his wife’s surname to Norwood. Melita was clearly allergic to spare time, because in 1932, Melita also became a member of the Independent Labour Party.
Jun 29, 2005 · In 1949 she married Hilary Norwood, a fellow-Communist and mathematics teacher. Her Soviet controller warned her not to tell her husband about her involvement in espionage, though he soon found...
Jul 3, 2005 · Another member was an emigre from the Russian part of Poland, Bronislau Nussbaum. Years later, Bronislau's son, Hilary, changed his name to Norwood on the eve of his wedding to Melita...
