Fluent in German and passing as an Aryan, she once crossed into Germany, uncovered Nazi military secrets and nursed a wounded ...

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 ...

For decades, she said little about her intelligence work during the war.

Marthe Cohn, a French-Jewish spy who operated behind enemy lines in Nazi Germany during World War II, passed away late last month in California at the age of 105.

Marthe Cohn, who died May 20 in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., at 105, would keep those details secret for half a century, even from her family.

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Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime ...

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 ...