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Ginette Dior (2 August 1917 – 17 June 2008), better known as Catherine Dior, was a French Resistance fighter during World War II. Involved with the Franco-Polish intelligence unit F2 from November 1941, she was arrested in Paris in July 1944 by the Gestapo, then tortured and deported to the Ravensbrück women concentration camp.
Feb 15, 2024 · But who was the real Catherine Dior? What was her life actually like during the Second World War? And how did she go on to influence the work of her brother?
Aug 20, 2021 · On paper, Catherine Dior is an unlikely heroine. Born into the prosperous Dior family in 1917, the youngest of five children, she seemed destined for a decorative existence. But when the...
Jul 26, 2018 · Catherine Dior’s wartime activities and her heroism in not breaking under the torture she endured at the hands of the Gestapo of 180 rue de la Pompe earned her a nomination to the Légion d’Honneur and the Croix de Guerre.
Feb 14, 2024 · The World War II heroine inspired so much more than a floral fragrance. Here's the true story of Catherine Dior.
Feb 15, 2024 · Who is Catherine Dior? This is the unbelievable true story of Christian Dior’s younger sister, a member of the French Resistance who was taken prisoner during the Second World War, and is being played by Maisie Williams in the new Apple TV+ drama ‘The New Look’.
Feb 14, 2024 · Jonny Wilkes explores the quietly extraordinary life of Catherine Dior, who survived concentration camps and went on to cement the legacy of her brother’s fashion house….
Catherine Dior would become a crucial figure of the French Resistance, arrested and tortured by the Gestapo in 1944 and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp before her escape near Dresden...
Jan 29, 2019 · Christian Dior named the first of the fashion house’s perfumes, Miss Dior, after his sister Catherine, as a tribute to her heroism
Sep 10, 2021 · A member of the French Resistance, Catherine Dior was captured by the Nazis. In March 1944, Catherine received a coded message warning her to leave the south of France and travel to Paris, to continue her work for F2 there.
