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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.
Apolônio de Carvalho (1912–2005), Brazilian revolutionary Jacques Decour (1910–1942), French writer Charlotte Delbo (1913–1985) Catherine Dior (1917–2008) sister of French Couturier, Christian Dior Jacques Desoubrie (1922–1949) Martha Desrumeaux (1897–1982) François Ducaud-Bourget (1897–1984), Roman Catholic priest Jacques ...
Maisie Williams plays Christian Dior's sister, a French resistance fighter, in the Apple TV+ series 'The New Look.'
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 ...
It is customary to distinguish the various organisations of the French Resistance between movements and networks. A resistance group or network was an organization created for a specific military purpose (intelligence, sabotage, helping prisoners of war escape and preventing shot-down pilots from falling into the hands of the Germans). In contrast, the main goal of a resistance movement was to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...