With the Allied invasion, resistance groups helped to speed the advance against German forces. Learn Moreĭuring the time of the occupation, resistance cells had carried out sabotage and guerilla actions against German and collaborationist authorities, circulated identification papers and documents for Jews and other persecutees, and maintained escape networks for Jews, forced laborers, and Allied POWs and troops trapped behind German lines. He was responsible for the execution or murder of over 4,000 individuals and for the deportation of 7,500 Jews, the majority of whom perished in Auschwitz. Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie was the chief of the Gestapo in Lyon, France, a vital center of the French Resistance, during World War II. Register to receive a link to the program.įor more information, please contact the Western Regional Office at or 323.207.0671. Nadia Ficara, Director, International Travel Programs and VIP Speakers, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Lorna Catling and Brad Catling, members of Virginia Hall’s family Through the annual Rubin Lecture, they bring thought-provoking discussions of Holocaust history to the western region audience.
Linda and Tony Rubin have been deeply involved with and strong supporters of the Museum since 1994. Those who know it best-members of Virginia Hall’s family and the deputy director of the CIA Museum-will join us for this live virtual program.
FEMALE SURVIVIG AMERICAN SPY AGENT WW2 FULL
The public is only beginning to know her full story.
ETĪs she fled certain death by scaling a remote Pyrenees mountain pass, the secret agent worried and planned: Would the network of spies and saboteurs she built in France survive Nazi occupation? Would those who had been arrested-including several Jews-survive the torture of Klaus Barbie, the infamous “butcher of Lyon”? With her cover blown by a double agent, would she be able to return and coordinate attacks on the Germans before an Allied invasion? The agent was American Virginia Hall, who changed espionage forever, escaped with her life, and did it all with just one leg.
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