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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, nee Hoffnung, in Paris in 1949. Photo: Cohn family. As a child, Stephan Cohn was often sent from his home in Pittsburgh to France in the summer, to spend time with his mother Marthe ...

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 ...

Marthe Cohn OBITUARY April 13, 1920 – May 20, 2025. Died peacefully at home surrounded by her family in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Marthe was born in Metz, France.

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.

Marthe Cohn, a French Jewish woman who served as a spy for the Allied forces against the Nazi regime, has died at the age of 105 on Tuesday. She died at her home in California.

Marthe Cohn, a French Jewish woman who served as a spy for the Allied forces against the Nazi regime, has died at the age of 105 on Tuesday. She died at her home in California. Her surviving husband ...