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- Approached by the British secret service to work in the resistance, she underwent vigorous training, triumphantly completing several important missions while displaying that legendary British "We Can Take It" pluck. Szabo's eventual capture, torture, incarceration in a prison camp and death practically made her a modern day saint.
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They have a daughter, Tania, but Etienne never sees the child, as he is killed fighting in the North African front; Violette Szabo and her daughter move into her parents' home. Because of her linguistic skills, the widowed Szabo is recruited as a spy by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for operations in France.
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Jul 11, 2015 · Now 70 years after her capture in Nazi-occupied France and later murder her daughter, Tania, has spoken of her heart-wrenching decision to sell her mother’s medals.
Carve Her Name with Pride: Directed by Lewis Gilbert. With Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Denise Grey. During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.
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- Biography, Drama, War
- Lewis Gilbert
- 1958-06-20
A whirlwind romance results in their marriage and the birth of a daughter named Tania. After Etienne is killed at El Alamein, Violette is recruited as a liaison to the French Resistance. She goes through training with two other plucky British lasses.
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They have a daughter, Tania, but Etienne never sees the child, as he is killed fighting in the North African front; Violette Szabo and her daughter move into her parents' home. Because of her linguistic skills, the widowed Szabo is recruited as a spy by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for operations in France.
Jul 23, 2015 · Szabo's daughter Tania told the Daily Telegraph that it was with a heavy heart that she had decided to sell her mother's medals after a fire left her home in ruins, but...
Carve Her Name with Pride written by R J Minney tells the story of Violette Szabo an agent of the SOE who on her second mission behind enemy lines was caught, interrogated and eventually executed by the Gestapo in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp.
