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Ginette Dior (2 August 1917 – 17 June 2008), better known as Catherine Dior, was a French Resistance fighter during World War II. Involved with the Franco-Polish intelligence unit F2 from November 1941, she was arrested in Paris in July 1944 by the Gestapo, then tortured and deported to the Ravensbrück women concentration camp.
But who was the real Catherine Dior? What was her life actually like during the Second World War? And how did she go on to influence the work of her brother?
Catherine Dior’s wartime activities and her heroism in not breaking under the torture she endured at the hands of the Gestapo of 180 rue de la Pompe earned her a nomination to the Légion d’Honneur and the Croix de Guerre.
On paper, Catherine Dior is an unlikely heroine. Born into the prosperous Dior family in 1917, the youngest of five children, she seemed destined for a decorative existence. But when the...
Catherine Dior would become a crucial figure of the French Resistance, arrested and tortured by the Gestapo in 1944 and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp before her escape near Dresden...
The World War II heroine inspired so much more than a floral fragrance. Here's the true story of Catherine Dior.
Jonny Wilkes explores the quietly extraordinary life of Catherine Dior, who survived concentration camps and went on to cement the legacy of her brother’s fashion house….