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Chevalière of the Legion of Honour. 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 ...
Maisie Williams plays Christian Dior's sister, a French resistance fighter, in the Apple TV+ series 'The New Look.'
Robert Benoist (1895–1944) Charles Berty (1911–1944), French professional cyclist. Georges Bidault (1899–1983) Monique de Bissy (1923–2009) Georges Blind [fr] (1904–1944) André Bloch (French Resistance) [fr] (1914–1942) Denise Bloch (1916–1945) Marc Bloch (1886–1944), historian, founded the Annales School of historiography ...
Françoise Dior. Marie Françoise Suzanne Dior (7 April 1932 – 20 January 1993) was a French socialite and neo-Nazi underground financier. She was the niece of French fashion designer Christian Dior and Resistance fighter Catherine Dior, who publicly distanced herself from her niece after she married British neo-Nazi activist Colin Jordan in ...
Tom Murray looks back on the feuding between Dior and Chanel, and the key role that Dior’s family played in the French Resistance. IN FOCUS: A new Apple TV+ drama starring Ben Mendelsohn ...
Käthe Niederkirchner, German Communist resistance activist. Andrée Peel, French Resistance. Wanda Półtawska. Claire Prins, (Dutch prisoner, released together with Corrie ten Boom) Margarete Rosenberg, survivor. Élisabeth de Rothschild, French baroness. Zofia Rzewuska. Marek Rzewuski, born in Ravensbruck. Sylvia Salvesen, author.
The series, which is based on the book Miss Dior, tells the story of Christian Dior’s younger sister Catherine, who was a French resistance fighter during the Nazi occupation of Paris and served ...
The French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas) [2][3] who conducted guerrilla warfare and published underground ...