Marthe Cohn was a beautiful young Jewish woman living just across the German
border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing
the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their terrified parents. But
soon her homeland was also under Nazi rule. As the Nazi occupation escalated,
Marthe's sister was arrested and sent to Auschwitz. The rest of her family was
forced to flee to the south of France. Always a fighter, Marthe joined the
French Army.
As a member of the intelligence service of the French First Army, Marthe fought
valiantly to retrieve needed inside information about Nazi troop movements by
slipping