From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   (note: I thought I had seen this here but can't find a   
   copy now, so apologies if this is a dupe)   
      
   [Jewish Telegraphic Agency]   
      
   Marthe Cohn, survivor and nurse who spied for the French, dies at 105   
      
   Under cover, she was able to report that a German stronghold had been   
   evacuated, and pinpoint the location of German troops lying in ambush in   
   the Black Forest   
      
   Marthe Cohn, a Holocaust survivor and nurse who went behind Germany enemy   
   lines on behalf of French intelligence and helped undermine the German   
   military in the waning days of World War II, died May 20 in Rancho Palos   
   Verdes, California. She was 105.   
      
   Born Marthe Hoffnug in Metz, France, on April 13, 1920, Marie was arrested   
   in June 1942 and sent to the Route de Limoges camp for "foreign" Jews in   
   occupied France. While a sister was eventually deported to and killed at   
   Auschwitz, Marthe and her family escaped occupied France, eventually   
   arriving in Marseille where she finished her nursing studies.   
      
   In November 1944, she joined the French Army as a nurse, but was soon   
   transferred to the army's intelligence service. She eventually crossed   
   into German territory as the war was winding down. In her most storied   
   piece of derring-do, she was able to report that the Siegfried Line, a   
   German stronghold northwest of Freiburg, had been evacuated, and pinpoint   
   the  location of German troops lying in ambush in the Black Forest.   
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   https://www.jta.org/2025/06/30/obituaries/marthe-cohn-survivor-a   
   d-nurse-who-spied-for-the-french-dies-at-105   
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