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Cohn changed her mind when her brother contracted Parkinson’s Disease in 1996. “I decided I owed that to him,” said Cohn of her brother, who died in 2001.
Marthe Cohn spied on the Nazis and kept it secret for decades; now, at age 100, a documentary tells her story Coronavirus pandemic derailed her plans to attend Los Angeles premiere of the film ...
Marthe Cohn, who has died aged 105, was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in France; she survived the Holocaust, and after the liberation of Paris in 1944 she joined the French First Army ...
When she was asked to spy for the French army, Marthe Cohn recalled decades later, she didn’t hesitate before saying yes. It was late 1944, months before the end of World War II in Europe.
JTA — Marthe Cohn, a Holocaust survivor and nurse who went behind Nazi enemy lines on behalf of French intelligence and helped undermine the German military in the waning days of World War II ...
Marthe Cohn, a World War II French spy in Germany, visits Cleveland this week to talk about her experiences. She is now 99 years old and still actively sharing her war and Holocaust memories.
That’s how Marthe Cohn, now 99, became a spy for the French Free Forces in the latter days of World War II. Cohn will tell her story in Portland on Wednesday, Aug. 21., at 6 p.m. at Hannaford ...
Marthe Cohn tells her story with her husband, Major Cohn, at her side Wednesday evening at USM in Portland. Derek Davis/Staff Photographer “She was determined to come here,” Wilansky said.
Marthe Cohn, 97, tells how she became a spy in Germany during World War II. The French government has recognized her with, among other awards, Medaille of the Reconnaissance de la Nation in 2006.
Marthe Cohn speaking at F&M's Common Hour seated with her husband, Major Cohn. Cohn was a French nurse who went behind German lines in WWII as a spy. Thursday, September 5, 2019 ...
Marthe Cohn crossed into Germany as a French spy in 1945. More than 70 years later, she's telling her story.