There are so many topics that would be a great fit for this week! This week marks the fortieth anniversary of the heroic “Freedom Riders” that travelled the South to force the integration of bus stops and restaurants that were refusing to honor Supreme Court decisions concerning the rights of minorities in the US. Also, this week the eyes of the world will turn to Kentucky for the “Run for the Roses” – the Kentucky Derby, arguably the world’s most famous race (with a world-wide viewing audience that is bigger than that of the Super Bowl, the World Series, or the NBA finals). The history of horse racing is closely connected with our state’s history. Not far from where you are sitting to read this thousands of spectators used to gather at the home of Revolutionary War hero William Whitley to witness the first horse races in Kentucky. Our state boasts two of the best-known race tracks in America (Churchill Downs in Louisville and Keeneland in Lexington), the world’s most expensive horse auction (Keeneland’s annual sales events), and is home to many of the most successful horse farms in the world. Each year hundreds of thousands of people travel to Kentucky to enjoy what is our state’s signature industry.
However, I feel that it would be appropriate to take this time to focus on a theme that is more closely connected to the material we are covering in lecture. As we continue to study World War II there are so many notable events and people that deserve our attention. For this week's assignment you can choose to research and report on the role of women in the war effort (there's more to the story than "Rosie the Riveter", as you will find at the excellent link http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWwomen.htm - please mention at least three) or you may choose to examine US propaganda efforts by means of war-time posters. These posters were produced and distributed by the government with a purpose in mind - examine and analyze at least three at the link http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/otcgi/digilib/llscgi60.exe?QUERY=jpeg®ION=M8561Z&db=0&SIZE=10&SORTBY=M260C and explain the significance of these posters. Also, do you think they were effective in World War II? Does the government propagandize current wars? If so, how?
Please make every attempt to complete this assignment on time. Respond to the essays of others in the class with thoughtful comments that challenge deeper thinking. Remember to meet all the requirements of these assignments. Thank you and have a great week!
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 6, 1906, Virginia Hall would go on to become a aone-legged CIA agent. Mrs. Hall could speak English, French, Italian, and German and in 1931 she served on the staff of the American Embassy in Poland. It was there that a serious accident cost her a leg. During World War 2, Hall was living in France were she joined the French Ambluance Service Unit, but she left for England to work in the US Embassy when the German army of the War. After the War ended, she was awared the Distinguished Service Cross and in 1951 she joined the CIA. She died in 1982.
ReplyDeleteNaomi Mitchison was born in Edinburgh on November 1, 1897, to a physiologist father and a suffragist mother. She was a passionate writer and wrote over 70 books. Some of her books were "The Conquered" "Cloud Cuckoo Landinvaded France in 1940. She was recruited to work for the Special Operations Executive and become a British special agent in 1941. She then went back to France where she served in various parts " "The Corn King and Queen Queen" and "The Blood of the Martyers." During World War 2, she kept a diary about it and it was later published as "Among You Taking Notes" in 1985. On January 11, 1999, at 101 years old, Naomi Michison died.
Denis Jacob was born in 1924 in a place called Nice, which didn't turn out to be a very nice place when it was occupied by the Italian army in November of 1942. Because the Italians tolerated Jews better then the Germans did, many Jews went to Nice hoping for refuge. Denise braved the dangers and assisted the Jews to find safe places to hide. She moved to Lyon in 1943 to join the French Resistance. In August of that same year, Denice became a full time liaison agent, which means she helped transport messages, journals, and other materials to other membors of the French Resistance. After almost a year, she was arrested and imprisioned in Monluc, then in 1944 she was deported to Ravensbruck where she survived the war. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance in 1945.
This week my essay is going to be on the role of women in the war effort.
ReplyDeleteHannah Senesh was born in Budapest, Hungary, in the year 1921. In 1939 she immigrated to Palestine, where she studied agriculture. When she learned about the Jews in Europe being placed in concentration camps, she went to Britain to help them in fighting fascism. In 1944 her mission was to parachute into Yugoslovia and persuade the Partisans to cross into Hungary to rescue the Jews. Shortly after arriving in Yugoslovia Senesh was captured and tortured by Gestapo, they tortured her for months before executing her in Budapest in 1944.
Nancy Wake was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1912. In 1914 her family moved to Australia. After she was educated in Sydney she moved to Europe where she worked as a journalist. She actually witnessed the rise of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. Once in Vienna she witnessed Jews being whipped by member of the SA (Sterm Abteilung). In 1940 the network was betrayed and she was forced to go into hiding. After going into hiding she continued to work with the French Resistance, she was eventually caught and arrested in Toulouse. It had now become too dangerous to live in France so she crossed into Spain before she traveled into Britain. After moving into Britain she joined the Special Operations Executive and became a British special agent. After all the war and fighting was over Nancy worked in intelligence at the British Air Ministry. She married John Forward in 1960 and returned to Australia to live.
Eileen Cain was born in Inslington, London, in 1920. She left school at fourteen to work as a machinist in Edmonton. Eileen’s work was hit and destroyed by a V2 Rocket. Later she found work at the rail station as a van guard, which included delivering fish to Rayleigh. Eileen met a man named Jack Hughes, who was returning from the desert war in Egypt. They later married on June 28, 1947, they moved to Rayleigh in 1960. In 2007 Eileen was taken to a hospital after falling and breaking a hip, she later died of an infection she got while at the hospital.
For the first woman, i have chosen to talk about Helene Vianna who was an anti nazi resistance. Helene was born in 1917 in the city of Paris, France. Her mother a doctor and her dad a journalist, both worked in Russia. She had to be a librarian to help pay for her school studies of physical geography. But once the French surrendered, she, along with many other students, started printing clandestine newspapers. She soon took over the distribution and was in charge of the printer. She secretly hid the printer and printed 47 issues of this newspaper in 3 years.
ReplyDeleteFor the second woman, i have chosen to write about Unity Mitford. Unity was born in 1911. Unity went to Germany and met Hitler, Himmler, Goering, Goebbels and other leaders of the nazi party. Hitler told newspapers that she was a perfect specimen of Aryan womanhood. Once w w 2 started, she tried to commit suicide. Unity was just a regular civilian
For my third and last person that i have chosen to talk about is Vera Atkins. Vera was a secret agent. Vera was born in romania in 1908. She joined the French Special Operation Executive in 1941, after France was invaded by Germany. One of her main assignments was to make cover stories for the agents who were about to inter territory occupied by nazi Germany.
Billy Tha Squid,
ReplyDeleteGood essay! I like the story about Hannah Sennesh. I find it fascinating. In a time where women were just getting their rights, I find it awesome how she was able to parachute into enemy land (which in itself shows she was a very couragous women.) to help people she didn't even know (showing she was a very humble and caring person) I hate to think of what type of torture she went through at the hands of the Gestapo. I bet by the time she was executed, she was praying for death. Horrible yet facisnating story. Good essay!
Christian,
Good essay. I enjoyed reading the short stories of the three women you chose. I find the second one about Unity Mitford interesting and awful. I find it very interesting that she met Hitler and the other leaders and I find it even more interesting that she was considered a "perfect specimen" (which makes me mad to think of anyone being considered a "specimen") by Hitler. THough, it makes me wonder about what type of people Hitler found "perfect" since all the people he seemed to be around tried to kill him, killed others, or commited suicide. That guy was just wrong and I feel sorry for Unity. Good essay.
Shelley Mydans worked at Literary Digest in New York after she graduated from college. She later began working with Life Magazine in 1936 where she met her future husband, Carl. They got married in 1938 and went to Europe soon afterwards to write about the Second World War They traveled to England, Sweden, Finland, Portugal, China, Italy, and Hong Kong. Shelley and Carl were in the Philippines when Pearl Harbor was bombed. The Japanese found them and held them captive until December 1943. Shelley wrote a novel about her experiences in the Japanese prison camp. After the war, she wrote scripts for the March of Time and worked for ABC network, but she quit when she had her first child. She died in Sacramento, California in 2002.
ReplyDeleteMathilde Carre was born in France around 1910. In the beginning of the war, she worked as a nurse. She was soon recruited as a French spy and became known as the “Cat.” She picked up many conversations from German officers. She was unfortunately arrested in 1941 and became a double agent because she was threatened with torture. On her first assignment with the Germans, she was arrested and detained until the end of the war. Upon her return to France, she was sentenced to death, but something must have changed because she was released in September 1954.
Dorothy Leyton was born in Wisconsin and spent most of her life in Mexico, but she moved to the United States when she became an actress using the name Drue Leyton. In 1938, she married a French officer who was fighting with the British army. She soon moved to Paris and worked at a radio station. After the German’s surrendered in 1940, her husband went to fight for the Free French forces in Syria and was killed. She stayed in France and worked for the French Resistance. She bought a farm and used it to hide soldiers and aircrew that were trying to get back to Britain.
This week I will write about what women did during World War II. For example there was a women called Rosemary Wright, she was born in the United States, in 1915. Her mother was English and she was good educated through a private school in Ascot.
ReplyDeleteWhen she married Pierre Maeght, she went to live with him in Pau, France in the year 1939. In 1941 she joined in the French Resistance and began hiding soldiers and aircrew trying to get back to Britain. She also helped to hide Jewish refugees and wanted to help them to get away from the, during World War II. Unsafe areas. Rosemary, Jacqueline Cintrat and Etienne Lalou, led the resistance in Pau. Rosemary’s part was it to arrange for guides to take the hidden men across the Pyrenees and with that into safety. When the war ended she had been able to help 90 people to reach freedom.
Another women was Sophie Scholl, her father Robert School was the mayor of Forchtenberg. When the family moved to Ulm she joined the Hitler Youth in 1933. In the beginning she really liked, but influenced by her fathers view, she became critical about Adolf Hitler and his Nazi government. Her brother Hans Scholl, was also critical about the situation with the Nazis in Germany and he got arrested in 1937. After Sophie left school she became a Kindergarten teacher. In May 1942, she entered the University in Munich where she studied biology and philosophy. Her father got arrested for making critical comments about Adolf Hitler to one of his employees. And he was found guilty.
Violette Szabo was born in France on June 26,1921,the second child of a French mother and an English taxi driver, who had met during WWI.
ReplyDeleteViolette met and married a French officer who was killed in battle October 1942. She offered her services to the British Special Operations Executive.
She was dropped behind enemy lines and reorganized a French Resistance network that had been smashed by the Germans. She led groups in sabotaging roads and railway bridges. She was able to send reports to England that established Allied bombing missions. She returned to England very successful in her first mission.
She flew to France after D-Day. She was captured and transferred to Ravenbruck concentration camp where over 92,000 women died. She was executed on or about Feb 5, 1945. She was 23 years old.
Noor Inayat Khan was the daughter of Hazrat Inayat Khan the great grandson of Tipu Sultan the famous ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore. Her mother was Ora Meena Ray Baker an American from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Noor was deeply influenced by the pacifist teaching of her father, but she and her brother wanted to help defeat Nazi tyranny. She became a SOE agent and adopted the name Nora Baker.
She traveled to France with two other women operatives. In spite of the danger she "refused to abandon what had become the most important and dangerous post in France and did excellent work."
Khan was betrayed to the Germans. She was arrested and interrogated for a year. She was executed on September 11, 1944. Having never given any information under interrogation.
Virgina Hall was an American spy during WWII. She had many aliases. The Germans gave her the nickname Artemis. The Gestapo reportedly considered her " the most dangerous of all Allied Spies."
She accidentally shot herself in the left leg while hunting in Turkey. It was later amputated from the knee down.
Because of her leg she landed by boat in Brittany. She eluded the Gestapo and contacted the French Resistance in central France. She mapped drop zones for supplies and commandos from England, found safe houses. Hall helped three battalions of Resistance forces to wage guerrilla warfare against the Germans until the Allied troops were able to get to her position.
After the war she married Paul Goillot an other OSS agent. After her retirement from the CIA at age 60 they settled on a farm in Maryland. She planted thousands of bulbs, went bird watching and made goat cheese from her experience living in France. She died in 1082 at age 76.
wikipedia/The Women Who Lived for Danger-Behind Enemy Line During WWII- Marcus Binney
I have chosen to research the posters and analyze them.
ReplyDeleteThe first one is: “America calling : take your place in civilian defense /”
This poster is under the category “Civil Defense.” When looking at these posters, I see the common trend in the presentation. They are all serious and portray the emotion of courage and valor. A common style is the catch “America Calling.” This particular saying along with the over-all appearance of the posters for civil defense make it feel as the American people need someone.
The second one is: “Be with him at every mail call : V-mail is private, reliable, patriotic /”
This poster takes a different turn to war support and is under the subsection “home efforts.” Instead of appealing to young men to come and fight, it appeals to those who cannot fight. This group included the women and children who had family members. This particular poster is appealing to the women. It displays a young woman writing a letter with soldiers receiving mail in the background. It advertises a mail service encouraging those at home to be writing them and to “be with him at every mail call.”
The final poster is: “Some can't buy : some don't know, some don't try.”
This particular poster came from the subsection “stay healthy.” These are all commonly black, gray, and white. They give power and self-will to the readers. This poster makes the individual think about their own situation and if the claims made apply to them. They get that encouragement to better themselves and work, make progress, and support themselves.
The media back then affected the people just as much as it does now. When people read the campaign to work, support, and change, they did. The women decided to and had to go to work which never happened before. The campaigns were pro-American pride. They promoted support and national spirit, and the people caught on. Today, the media does the same in that it pushes the people where they want them to go. As much as we wouldn’t like to admit, our ideas are influenced by the media no matter what side you take, what you hear has to effect what you believe unless you experience the situation first-hand. So the same methods are used today as they were back them, but we have more opportunities and our message is different, but we use the media to push the American people (and now global population) where they are believed to need be.
For this weeks homework assignment I chose to write about the World War II propaganda posters. I personally think that some of these posters are among the coolest posters in the world. My brother has one that is propagating for the Navy. It features a Sailor about to depart saying FIGHT “Lets Go Join The Navy”. The poster makes it appear like it is a glamorous thing to join the Navy by depicting a fantastic send off. The second poster that I looked at was one of soldier laying in a tent eating. The caption reads “He Eats a Ton a Year.” At the bottom are the words “your farm can help.” This poster targets those that are on the home front and encourages doing whatever you can to support the war effort. The third posted is one for the United States Air Force. I found this one especially interesting because it features a young man standing in the clouds holding a bomb. This poster inspires a since of mystery and adventure. The mystery comes from the fact that he is holding a bomb. Why is he doing that. The sky was the next frontier back then and the young man in the poster has a look that makes it seem like he is searching for a new challenge, something new that has not been explored.
ReplyDeleteFor this week’s assignment I chose to write about three women that made an impact during World War II.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I want to write about Sophie Scholl. She is one of the most famous German women in World War II. Sophie was born on May 9, 1921. As a young girl she joined the Hitler Youth, a group for young people of the National Socialist German Workers Party. As Sophie got older she became more and more opposed to Hitler and Nazi Germany. Her father and brother both felt the same way, and together with some other people they formed the White Rose. Their goal was to overthrow Hitler and the group displayed their opposition to Hitler in pamphlets or paintings on houses. The Gestapo arrested Sophie and her brother in February 1943, and four days later they were killed by the guillotine.
The second woman I’m writing about is Virginia Hall. She was born in Baltimore, USA, in 1906. Besides English she spoke French, Italian, and German. Before World War II started she had lost a leg in an accident. While working for the Special Operations Executive, Hall agreed to become a special agent for England in 1941 and was given the code name Marie. When German officials became suspicious of her and Hall therefore had to flee the country. She returned in 1944, and to the Gestapo she was now known as the "lady with the limp. She joined the CIA in 1951 where she became an intelligence analyst on French parliamentary affairs. She died in 1982.
The third lady is called Stella Hughes. She was born in June 1926 in London, and she was thirteen years old when the war broke out. At fourteen years old she started working. Her job was to make soldiers uniforms. Stella also worked at a hospital in the evenings and on the weekends. One time the factory got hit by a rocket, which forced her to change her work place. In 1947 she married George Hume, who was a Bombardier and helper in freeing people from the concentration camps.
What were the roles of women during World War II? Often we find that women not only did their given tasks, but also their husbands job while the men were fighting in the war. Women did much more than most people today recognize. They even piloted warplanes to fight the Germans. Pretty incredible, right? If you think about it, they really contributed to the outcome of the American war and homefront successes.
ReplyDeleteJoyce Storey, born in Bristol in 1917. She left school when she was only fourteen years old. She, as many women back then, was very hard working. Preceding World War II, Joyce Storey married a member of the Royal Air Force (RAF). They moved to Grimsby and later she had three daughters and one son. When the war was going on she decided to move back to Bristol. She published autobiographys and eventually died in November 2001. Also, this lady witnessed the Battle of Britain in 1940, which she wrote about.
Nancy Wake was a secret agent, born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1912. In 1914 her family moved to Australia where Nancy was educated in Sydney; she was a journalist. Nancy was a brave woman, she saw the rise of Adolf Hitler. Sadly she witnessed many tormenting things, such as members of the Sturm Abteilung whipping the Jews. Later in 1939 she married a French industrialist, who was said to be wealthy. As a matter of fact she was actually in France when the German Army invaded in May 1940. Things became too rough/ dangerous so Nancy moved into Spain before going to Britain. Nancy was a brave, courageous woman. As were most.
Lastly, Hannah Senesh, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1921. When Hannah was six years old her father passed away leaving her to live with just her mother and brother. Eighteen years later she moved to Palestine, there she studied agriculture. She then heard of the concentration camps holding the Jews. This convicted her to go to Britain and offer her service in fighting against fascism. She attempted to rescue the Jews from extermination camps once she crossed the border into Hungary. Very sadly, Hannah Senesh was captured by the German Army and was, even worse, tortured by the Gestapo. After being tortured for many months she was executed in Budapest in November 1944.
As you now know, these women of World War II did not have easy lives. They were strong (they had to be), brave, independent, and so much more. They went through very hard times and many lost their lives.
So, this is weird. I haven’t written any homework in a long time, but I’m glad to be doing it, and maybe-almost on tyme.
ReplyDeleteGenevieve Soulié, a French woman, was part of the French Resistance. Genevieve Soulie, as being part of this Resistance led 136 Allied airmen back to safety and their home land. Genevieve was part of the Anit-Natzi movement. A lot these days we think of secret agents being a part of our life period, not something of the past. But on the contrary, in World War 2 they had Woman secret agents. One female secret agent was Cecily Marie Lefort. Cecily was born in Ireland in 1903, she lived in France peacefully until the German army invaded in 1940.
Soon after she moved to England Cecily joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE). On 16th June, 1943, she was named “Alice”, or code named “Alice”. She was placed in the care of Francis Cammaerts in the Jockey Network. This was the system of Special Forces that she was plugged into. She later either died of starvation or executed at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp in early 1945. Gole Mire, born in Poland, was a communist. In 1933 she was arrested by the Polish Authorities and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. She escaped during the outbreak of the Second World War, she was then captured and killed while she was attacking the guards.
I decided to do my report on the women and their role in the war effort.
ReplyDeleteFirst I shall talk about Nancy Wake. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1912, and moved to Austria in 1914. Nancy married Henri Fiocca in 1939. When germany invaded France she was still there and she then joined the French Resistance and helped Ian Garrow help British airmen shot down get back to Britian. She was betrayed by the network and captured in 1940, however the authorities did not realize who she was and released her after 4 days.
Now Vera Leigh. She was born in Leeds on March 17, 1903. Abandoned as a baby she was adopted by Eugene Leigh, An American married to a British woman. When Germany invaded France she joined the French Resistance and helped in underground escape lines. Later she joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. While in Paris meeting another agent she was arrested and later taken to a concentration camp where she along with 4 other agents were injected with phenol and put in the crematorium furnace.
Finally Vera Atkins. She was born in Bucharest, Romania, on June 16, 1908. Also when Germany invaded france she joined with the French section of the Special Operations Executive. Her main job was to creat cover stories for agents entering countries and to interrogate German officials. She dies June 24, 2000.
I would like to start off talking about a woman by the name of Ruth Cowan. Ruth was born in salt lake city utah. After graduating she became a teacher in texas in 1923. about 5 years later ms. cowan became a reporter for the san antonio evening news. a couple of years after this she up and moved to washington. she was a veryt strong willed woman and she refused the right to go to press confrences held by president franklin d. roosevelt. later she discussed this with mrs. eleanor roosevelt who told her to hold her own press confrences with other women reporters. after this success cowan continued many years with her journalism and later got married to a politician named bradley d. nash. and she lived happily ever after or so i'd like to think :)
ReplyDeletenext i would like to put the spot light on a lady by the name of ann stringer whom was born of the name ann harrell in texas on december 9, 1918. she attended and graduated from the university of texas with a degree in journalism. the name stringer falls into play in the yera 1941 when ann marrys a man by the name of bill Stringer. the young couple moved to south america together to cover journalism on foriegn affairs. and tragically in 1944 bill was killed while covering WW2 in france by a german tank. this woman had to have been a strong one considering that she continued on with her carreer even without her husband/bestfriend/buisness partner by her side. i commend her for that.
And last but certainly not least i will tell you about yet another woman by the name of iris carpenter. iris was born in england. she was a busy lady holding down the job of journalist and critic. she worked for the daily express and during WW2 she joined the daily herald and wrote on the blitz and london. one time in her carrer she got into a little mess with authorities after visiting a certain place without "proper military escort." because of this carpenter and a few other women lost the privalige of visiting the front lines. but all of this eventually changed and she got to be by the troops practically every step of the way. later on in life iris married a man by the name of russell akers. haha how ironic. anyways i think this womans determination is a definite highlight for her as a journalist and a human in general.
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ReplyDeleteFor my article I choose to write about the women's support in war efforts.
ReplyDeleteVirginia Hall
She was born in Baltimore on April,6, 1906. Her father, Edwin Lee Hall, was a cinema owner.Hall was educated at Radcliffe College where she developed a keen interest in languages. She spoke French, Italian and German.
In 1931, Hall was appointed to the staff of the American Embassy in Poland.A serious accident resulted in her losing a leg. As the US State Department had a regulation that forbid the employment of people with "any amputation of a portion of a limb" and in May 1939 she was forced to resign.
In 1941 Hall was recruited by the Special Operations Executive and agreed to become a British special agent. Given the code name "Marie", Hall returned to France and while posing as a reporter for the New York Post helped to set up resistance networks in Vichy.In 1942 Hall up and moved to Lyons and worked closely with the French Resistance. By the end of the year German officials became suspicious of Hall and she was forced to leave the country.Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by President Harry S. Truman in 1945.
Nancy Wake
In 1939 Nancy married the wealthy French industrialist, Henri Fiocca, in Marseilles.
Nancy was in France when the German Army invaded in May 1940.Nancy joined the French Resistance. She worked with Ian Garrow's group helping British airmen shot down over France to escape back to Britain.
In December 1940 the network was betrayed and Nancy was forced to go into hiding. She continued to work for the French Resistance and was eventually arrested while in Toulouse. However, the authorities did not realize they had captured the woman known as the "White Mouse" and she was released after four days.She joined the CIA in 1951 where she became an intelligence analyst on French parliamentary affairs.Nancy had the task of helping the resistance to prepare for the armed uprising that was due to coincide with the D-Day landings. She also led a raid against the Gestapo headquarters and a German gun factory. Henri Tardivat, one of her comrades in the resistance later said that: "She is the most feminine woman I know, until the fighting starts. Then she is like five men."
Sigrid Schultz
Was the daughter of a portrait painter from Norway. She was born in Chicago in 1893. Educated in France and Germany, she joined the Chicago Tribune in 1919. Seven years later she had become bureau chief. It is believed that she was the first woman in the world to hold such a position in a major news bureau.
Schultz interviewed Adolf Hitler several times and soon became convinced that his foreign policies would eventually lead to war. On one occasion Hitler told her that: "You cannot understand the Nazi movement, because you think with your head and not with your heart." In order to protect her life, Schultz's articles attacking Hitler were published under the name John Dickson.
Schultz was injured during a bombing raid of Berlin. After receiving medical treatment Schultz attempted to return to Germany in August, 1941, but the Nazi government refused to let her enter. Instead she made a nationwide lecture tour and wrote the book, Germany Will Try It Again (1944).
In 1944 she worked as a war correspondent for McCall's and Liberty magazines. She accompanied the US Army when it landed in Normandy in 1944. She also reported on the liberation of France and the advance into Nazi Germany. Schultz was also one of the first journalists to visit cover the Nuremberg War Trials.
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to Camden, great job on your essay camden, i really enjoyed reading it. I think that you chose a good topic by deciding to write about the propaganda posters of world war II. i agree with you, these posters are very neat and well thought out. they promote several different causes and aspects of the war. i think all of these were neat and helped recruit new soldiers. Great job on your essay about the world war II propaganda posters though camden, i even learned a little from your esssay. Great job camden!
ReplyDeleteto abbie, Great job on your essay about women in w w II. I feel sorry for Shelley mydans, because her and her husband were just on vacation when they were captured. Shelley, and these other wemon as well,and Mathilde was even sentenced to death. But i think its cool how dorothy hid soldiers, to protect them. but great job on your essay, i really liked it.
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Billy Tha Squid,
Absolutely brilliant essay. I read the story about Hannah Sennesh joyfully. I find it fascinating. In a time where women were just getting their rights, I find it wikedly righteous how she was able to parachute into enemy land (which in itself shows she was an awesome woman.) to help people she didn't even know (showing she was a very caring and sweet person) I hate to think of what type of torture she went through at the hands of the Gestapo. I bet by the time she was executed, she was praying for death. But oh well, she would probably be dead by now anyways. Stupindous essay Billy.
Christian,
Splendid essay. I loved reading the short stories of the three women you chose. I find the second one about Unity Mitford interesting and awful. I find it very interesting that she met Hitler and the other leaders and I find it even more interesting that she was considered a "perfect specimen" (which makes me mad to think of anyone being considered a "specimen") by Hitler.Quite the auspicious essay Christian.
I am going to talk about a woman who was a secret agent in the second World war named Andree Borrel.
ReplyDeleteShe was French and was born November 18th 1919. She was the daughter of a working class parents and she lived near Paris where she actually moved in 1933. On the outbreak of the Second World war Borrel moved with her mother to Toulon on the Mediterranean coast. After training with the Red Cross she joined the Association des “Dames de France” (woman of France) and worked in a town called Beaucaire treating wounded soldiers of the French Army.
After France surrendered to Germany, she and one of friends, joined the French resistance. They established a villa outside Perpignan, a town close to the Spanish border and over the next six months they joined the network led by Albert Guérisse, that helped British airman shot down over France to escape back to Britain. In December 1940 the network was betrayed and they had to hide in Toulouse. They escaped to Portugal where they joined the Free French propaganda office in Lisbon. Borrel stayed in Portugal until April 1942 when she travelled to London. There, she was recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) as a British special agent. She and another woman became the first women agents to be was parachuted into France on 24th September 1942. They landed in the village of Boisrenard close to the town of Mer. After staying with the French Resistance for a couple of days Baissac moved to Poiters to start a new network whereas Borrel went to Paris to join the new Prosper Network that was to be led by Francis Suttill and included Jack Agazarian and Gilbert Norman. On 23rd June, 1943, the three key members of the Prosper Network were arrested. Borrel was taken to Avenue Foch, the Gestapo headquarters, in Paris. After being interrogated she was sent to Fresnes Prison. On 13th May 1944 the Germans transported Borrel and seven other SOE agents to Nazi Germany. On 6th July 1944, Borrel was taken to the Concentration Camp at Natzweiler. Later that day she was injected with phenol and put in the crematorium furnace.
It’s so touching to see what the people did to free my country and also see how courageous they were.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SOEborrel.htm
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Borrel_Andree.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9e_Borrel
Eileen, your essay was very interesting. I am amazed at those women’s courage they must have had to do what they did, for instance help Jews to be safe from the Nazis. I don’t only think that it was very courageous to help persecuted people at that time, but it is also a very honorable act to walk across a mountain range in order to do that; especially as a woman.
ReplyDeleteAlexandria Grace,
I really liked your essay! All three women you wrote about made a great impact in this world during World War II. The story that made the biggest impact on me is that of Hannah Senesh. It is very sad to think that although she meant to do something good, she was tortured and killed because of that. I also learned from your essay that women even piloted planed in war. I can imagine how dangerous that must have been. You were right when you said that many people don’t recognize what great impact women made in the war.
Christian, Great job. Thanks for sharing on such a variety of women. Helen Vianna sounds like someone who understood in order to get results you have to work hard.
ReplyDeleteUnity Mitford came from a family of titled sisters.A very English aristocrat family that was very popular to follow in England. They all had minds of their own and Unity had a thing about Hitler.
Vera Atkins is one of my mom's favorite WWII stories. She not only gave cover stories for agents. But tracked down the killers of her agents and caught all but one.
Charity: Geneieve Soulie, sounds like an interesting women. Rescuing 136 Allied airmen sounds like a dangerous job. Getting them all the way home sounds even harder! There were many women hero's that died in isolated enemy prisons. Communism scared many of the European nations. (It needed to.) Before England understood Nazism people were hopeing that Hitler would wipe out the communist. Winston Churchill was one of the few that from the start saw Hitler for who he was. Great job!
Christian, you are right, some of the woman did a great job and needed so much strength and courage to plan and then also do something about the terrible situation during World War II. They knew that critics about people and writing about it was not easy and definitely not save, but still, they decided to do what was right, telling the people the truth about what was going on. Good job on your assignment this week. Keep up your good work!
ReplyDeleteAlexandria, you did a great job on your essay this week. And I agree, women had to be strong. Often times they were on their own, for example when their husbands were fighting in the war. Strength and courage was a really important thing for them in that time. But I am always amazed about how they wanted other people to understand that Adolf Hitler was not good, like a lot of people thought at the beginning, and they wanted them to know that so bad that they were even willing to give their lives for that.
Christmas Day 1923, Sonya Olschanezky was born in Chemnitz, Germany. Her father was a Russian Jew. He worked as a sales representative so he moved around often. Sonya's family ended up in France by the time she was seven. Her dreams were to be a dancer but instead she joined the French Resistance and carried messages for SOE agents. She was arrested soon thereafter but then freed with the use of false paperwork, narrowly escaping extermination camp. She went back to her resistance efforts with the Prosper Network. She narrowly escaped capture when the network was betrayed. January of 1944 she was arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned. May 13, 1944 her and three other SOE women were taken to a concentration camp, injected with Phenol, and cremated.
ReplyDeleteSonia Tomara, born in 1897 in St. Petersburg Russia. Her family was quite well to do. During the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 Sonia and her mother fled to France. She began working with the French newspaper, Le Matin. She was then recruited by the New York Tribune in 1928. She went to Nazi Germany for some time in the 1930's to cover Hitlers rise to power. She then moved to New York and worked there until World War II when she moved back to Europe. As a "roving correspondent" she covered many of the major offensives. She escaped to Portugal then the U.S. after the armistice. Sonia was accredited as a war correspondent in 1942. She traveled or was transferred several places between 1942 and 1944. In 1945 she resigned from the New York Tribune and married Federal Judge William Clark. She died in 1982.
Masha Bruskina was born in Minsk, Russia in 1924. Her family was Jewish and therefore forced to live in the ghetto of Minsk when the German army arrived in 1941. At seventeen she became a member of the Communist party and the Minsk Resistance group. She was a volunteer nurse for the Red Army and she helped soldiers escape. She was arrested on October 14, 1941 and tortured for information. When she refused to give any info she was hung publically as a warning at the age of seventeen on October 26, 1941.
Alexandria Bartley. You really did a good job on your essay. You are absolutely right about women did so much more than most people realize or what they are credited for. But when men went off to war the did their household jobs which had always been done (certainly NOT an easy job) and as you said the mens jobs. I think it's amazing that they not only worked in the factories and did the everyday jobs that men usually did but they also became spies, newspaper reporters, resistance leaders and workers, and pilots. they definitely contributed alot more than they are regongnized for today!
ReplyDeleteEmily Cox, I like your essay. I like that you wrote about the propaganda posters. You are right about how much media affects everyone whether they realize or what to admit it. It can be for the good or the bad. Many of the posters you mentions were I think a pretty good kind of influence. The inspired people to work hard and have pride in their country when times were violent and hard. People needed that then. I think thats what the media should be used for. Not to push peoples personal agendas but to encourage, and inspire people in a positive way.
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting to see the list of names of all the ladies who have made a difference in war time. The first lady I chose to share about is Andree de Jongh. I read a report of her life that her father shared. She was born in Belgium in 1916. She grew up and became a nurse but when the German army invaded her home country she decided to be a nurse in Brussells. She helped lead British soldiers back to Britain. This reminds of Harriet Tubmans underground railway. She later called hers Comet Escape Line.
ReplyDeleteThe second lady I chose was Elaine Browne-Bartroli. She was born in France in 1917. During the war she worked for the British Embassy in Madrid and Lisbon. She joined the SOE after married her husband who was part of the British Army. I thought it was neat how she was given a code name – Gaby. And how she parachuted into France and was a courier. Later she was caught and killed for what she was doing. What a true hero she was!
The third lady I chose was Nancy Wake. She was born in New Zealand in 1912. This woman had the most interesting story of all the ones I read. She witnessed Jews being whipped when Adolf Hitler was becoming more powerful. She also decided to help soldiers. She joined a group called the French Resistance. Just like Andree de Jongh, she helped soliders who were shot down to get back to Britain. Her nickname was the “White Mouse”. She was arrested but they let her go because they didn’t know she was the White Mouse. She was able to get away to safety.
All three of these ladies did great things for the ally side of the war. I was very interesting to read about what they did. They were all great secret agents!
Morgan - great essay. Your writings about Sonya Olschanezky was very interesting. Sonya sounds alot like one of the women I wrote about who joined the SOE and worked for the French Resistance - Elaine Browne-Bartroli. They were such brave women. I would say that many of them gave up their dreams to help during the war.
ReplyDeleteIt was sad to read about Masha Bruskina. I wonder if I could have been as strong as her if I were tortured like that. I am thankful for all of these ladies and what they did.
Jess_Megs15 - I really enjoyed reading your essay. It was great. I really like the one about Ruth Cowan. You gave alot of information that helped me to see what a great woman she was. She perservered even during hard times. Reading about many of these women has helped me to see just how important the womans role was during the war. It is good to read articles where they are being recognized for their heroism. Great essay.
ReplyDeletecamden, I liked your essay. You were either the only person to write about the posters or one of the few. Now that I read your essay, I wish I would’ve chosen to write about the posters. The poster with the guy standing in a cloud holding a bomb was really interesting to me. I would’ve liked to see it. It also interests me that they promoted joining the Navy like it was a good thing which is something we just don’t do nowadays.
ReplyDeleteEmily C., I liked your essay a lot. I especially liked that you pointed out how media affected people back then just as much as it affects us today. From what I read in your essay, the posters seemed to encourage people and promote support of troops which is almost what we do today. I also loved the advertisement that encouraged family members to write their loved ones in the war letters.
Stella, Very good job on your report. I think the life story of Sophie Scholl is very sad but also shows bravery and courage. Their idea of the White Rose was great but very risky and sadly she was killed for sharing her opinion of Adolf Hitler. Now, Virginia Hall's story seems pretty interesting. I wonder what it would be like to a special agent during those times. For your last woman mentioned, Stella Hughes, I would like to say that she must have been terrified being 13 when the war broke out. She made soldiers uniforms at age 14? thats pretty incredible. Not to mention she worked in the hospital too. Good Job Stella, i loved reading about all three women you chose.
ReplyDeleteChristian, Good job. Your report was very interesting. The story of Unity Mitford you talked about was rather sad. How she tried to commit suicide. Now, for Vera Atkins, I bet her job was pretty scary at times. Growing up I always wanted to be a secret agent but now that I see all the things people like Vera and other agents go through im not so sure about being a secret agent. Good Job Christian..
ReplyDeleteEileen, you did a good job on your essay. It is incredible to read about these women who played such an important role in a major world event. They are not recognized like other heroes and completed tasks that were just as brave. They risked their lives and their freedom to do what they thought was right. No matter whom you are or what side you support, anybody who puts themselves under that kind of risk has a quality of valor that many have not yet obtained.
ReplyDeleteCamden, your essay was interesting as well. I also did my essay on the posters and found the strategy used in creating them intriguing. Each poster has its own characteristic style. They can be classified into groups that specify the method of advertisement used. Some used mystery, others guilt, and others to build a sense of pride in this country. They were very interesting to look into.
Camden, my favorite poster that you talked about (out of the three) was the one about the guy holding the bomb and about to drop it from the clouds. That is sooo interesting! I wish I had one of those. But anyways you had a great essay, good job(:
ReplyDeletePaco, one individual in which you spoke about, Vera Leigh, really stuck out to me. She was an awesome lady! The thing that bothers me the most about her is where she died by cremation, that gives me the heevy jeevys. :/ great essay Paco!
Willus, you are an amazzzijnnnnggggg! writer. Like seriousely, even with just this simple essay about woman back in World War 2, I think you should totally seek a carreer in writing, or whatever the Lord calls you to do. I looooveeee you Jarreddd Lipscomb!
Abbie Vickers, you wrote an amazing essay as well, I rather enjoyed it.
Camden,
ReplyDeleteGreat work on your essay, you were like the only person who did an essay on the posters. Your essay was very informative and short. Good work.
Willus,
Wow, great essay. I didn't you to do your homework, let alone good. Your essay was the best out of everyones. Your essay had great length and a lot of information. Great Work!
alexandria grace,
ReplyDeletei really enjoyed your essay it was wonderful. and it is so true that people often over look the roles that women played in WW2. But to be honest they are sometimes still overlooked today. Some people still seem to forget the hard work woman do playing mommy and daddy while their husband is away at war. i recently heard a song and one line of it went like this "while her husband is being an angel for you and me she has to remember shes an angel too" and that line just really helped me to realize how much work comes from both sides. so great job :)
ashley glass,
your essay this week was wonderful. and i really liked how in your first paragraph you related Andree de Jongh's story to that of Harriet Tubman that was very good in my opinion. and i hate to be retorical but i must say that the power of a woman can be so easily over looked i think we are pretty tough when it is necessary. you did a great job by hitting a variety of points in your essay so well done :)
During World War II, the government created many posters to increase awareness of issues involving the war and many called for action from American citizens. One poster titled ”Give ‘em both barrels” depicts a soldier in the foreground equipped with uniform, helmet, and gun; while a civilian is in the background using a power drill. This poster was apparently urging citizens to do their part by working at factories to produce war materials.
ReplyDeleteAnother poster encouraged people to buy savings to help support the costs of the war effort.
A third poster shows a lone young woman with two little children. The poster states “I gave a man! Will you give at least 10% of your pay in war bonds?” This is obviously guilty those who don’t have loved ones fighting to help with the war.
The everyday lifestyle of the American people during World War II is vastly different than our lifestyles during current wars. Everyone in America sacrificed in some way to better our chances of victory, whereas today, most of us don’t even realize we are in a war on a daily basis. It think the fact that the government “advertised” the war so much made people realize the gravity of the situation that our country was in.
Joyce Storey was born in Bristol in 1917. Joyce left school at 14, and she worked in service before finding a job at a corset factory. She married a member of the RAF just before WWII. They moved to Grimsby where he was working in the Air Sea Rescue Service. Over a few years of timespan, she gave birth to three daughters and one son. During the war, Joyce moved back to Bristol, getting work at Magna Prorducts at Warmley. Joyce's husband died in 1979. Four years after his death, she joined the Bristol Broadsides writer's workshop. From this, resulted three volumes of autobiography: Our Joyce, Joyce's War, and Joyce's Dream. Joyce Storey died in November 2001.
ReplyDeleteSophie Scholl, was the daughter of mayor of Forchtenberg. She was born on May 9th, 1921. In 1933, Sophie joined the Hitler Youth. She was first very enthusiastic, but with her father's heavy influence, he swayed her to become critical of Hitler and his Nazi government. Sophie left school in 1940 and became a kindergarten teacher.
In May 1942, Sophie became a student of biology and philosophy at the University of Munich. Later in that year, her father was imprisoned for making critical comments about Hitler. He has been quoted, "this Hitler is God's scourge on mankind, and if this war doesn't end soon the Russians will be sitting in Berlin." Sophie's brother, Hans, also was at the University of Munich, and in 1942 formed a the White Rose group. This group was dedicated to the opposition of Adolf Hitler and Nazis.
Helen Kirkpatrick was in born in Rochester, New York in 1909. Kirkpatrick studied international law at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. She returned to the U.S. Then returned back to Europe: She moved to London in 1937 where she obtained an exclusive interview with Edward VIII. Helen traveled all throughout Europe and wrote two books: This Terrible Peave and Under the British Umbrella.
I think during World war I and II women didn’t have that important situations .Women were called on, by necessity, to do work and to take on roles that were outside their traditional gender expectations.In Great Britain this was known as a process of "Dilution" and was strongly contested by the trade unions, particularly in the engineering and ship building industries. Women did, for the duration of both World Wars, take on jobs that were traditionally regarded as skilled "men's work". However, in accordance with the agreement negotiated with the trade unions, women undertaking jobs covered by the Dilution agreement lost their jobs at the end of the World War I. Many women became nurses, or used their nursing expertise, in the war effort. Some became Red Cross nurses. Others served in military nursing units. About 74,000 women served in the American Army and Navy Nurse Corps in World War II. Entertainer Josephine Baker worked with the French Resistance and entertained troops in Africa and the Middle East. Alice Marble, a tennis star, secretly married an intelligence operative and when he died, was convinced to spy on a former lover, a Swiss banker, suspected of having records of Nazi finances. She found such information, and was shot in the back, but escaped and recovered. Her story was told only after her death in 1990.
ReplyDeleteEssay from Jerome Geils-Lindemann
ReplyDeletein this weeks assignment I'm going to talk about the role of women in the war effort.
My first woman which I will talk about was a Journalist.Iris was born in England. Very quick she became a journalist and worked for "Daily Express". She wrote a bock about the Blitz right in the war and joined "Daily Herald".She went to the First Army and arrived in France for four days after the D-day landings. After a while she got into big trouble with the authorities after visiting the Cherbourg.. As a result Carpenter and other women reporters were placed under the command of the Public Relations Division and were told they could not visit the front-line. I think she was a great woman and she should earn much respect. At least from me.
My second what which I'm going to talk about is Eileen Kane. Eileen Kane was born on 7th January, 1920 in Islington, London. As she went to school with five and left with fourteen she immediatly found as a machinist in Edmonton. As her family moved to Chingford . She switched her workplace and worked at the Rego factory in Edmonton which was hit by a rocket later. She died on 8th October, 2007 after picking up and infection while in the hospital. I think she was a very tough woman, what had many rough times...
My third woman which I will report is Sophie Scholl which was born on 9th May, 1921. She was the dauther of Robert Scholl, the mayor of Forchtenberg. I think this woman is my favorite. Anyways she lived Ulm and in 1933 Sophie joined the Hitler Youth, what many teenager did "back in the days". His dad played a big role in her life, because in the beginning she liked the Hitler Youth, but her dad spoke bad about Hilter. So she got increasingly critical of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi government.
Dear Guffey,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy to read your essay because it is interesting. And another point it is I love to talk about World War II, also because it is from my home country Germany. I really like your introduction and how you details in your essay. Good job!
Dear Ashley Glass =),
I think it is the first time I respond on one of your essay. I already like your name with the smily. Anyways. I really think you did good job and I enjoy to read. I think you took very interesting choices of Ladys in your report. Great job.
Dear Paco,
I really like to repond your essay, because I just like your writingstyle. I think it is so unbelievable if a woman was in the very early 19hundrets and survived until the end of the 19 hundrets. I mean you have to image how new invetions she had live through from the very small airplane to an airbus a380 or from a 15 miles/h car to a 160 miles/h Ferrari. GOOD job though
For the essay this week we had to choose three women in the war that played important parts. The three women i choose are Virginia Hall, Eileen Kane, and Stella Hughes. I am going to start off with Virginia Hall. Virginia Hall it all started in 1931 when Virginia Hall joined in the American Embassy in Poland. She worked many places with many people which resulted in her loosing a leg so in 1939 she was forced to quit. Threw times she continued to try to work she kept getting found out about her leg and in 1944 she became known as "the lady with a limp" she then on became an intelligence analyst on French parliamentary affairs. The second one is Eileen Kane she was born in 1920 on January 7. She moved out at 14 and later on met Jack Huges who she later married on June 28 in 1947. Eileen Hughes was taken to Southend Hospital after a fall that broke her hip. She died on 8th October, 2007 after picking up and infection while in the hospital. My third is Stella Hughes she was born on the 5th of June in 1926. 1943 Stella met George Hume, a Bombardier in the Royal Artillery S/L Regiment. He took part in the D-Day landings and the liberation of Paris. He also reached Germany and helped free those in Concentration Camps. After arriving back in England they married in 1947.
ReplyDeleteDear Ashley Glass i really enjoyed reading your essay it was very very interesting. My favorite part was the lady you wrote about third Nacy Wake. Its very sad to read what shes seen and the thought of what she whatched people go threw is so so sad. All in all i thought your essay was very well written and you worded it good.Your essays are always interesting to me good job Ashley!
ReplyDeleteDear lauren i also liked reading your essay. Your essay was very very well written. It was very interesting my favorite part to read was the first part and the first woman Joyce Storey. She seems to be very brave having just lived threw that time period and havign children at the same time. The rest of your essay was interesting to your essay was one of my favorites. All in all your essay was very good you did a good job!
ReplyDeleteAlex,
ReplyDeleteI really liked your essay. We can't imagine how different life was back then, well, we can, but is it really realistic? I couldn't imagine my Mom or StepMom being able to take over her job, completly taking care of us, her children, and taking over my dad's job. It's amazing to me how much women took on during the wars. Not only that but most women even nursed soldiers back to health over and over again to keep on. I couldn't imagine taking on this much responsibility at age 14, not even as an older mature adult.
Lauren, your essay about Sophie was quite interesting to me. I find it interesting how she was influenced by what her father believed, such as we all are. But, in a situation where it was such a big deal you could get imprisioned for it, i think it would be harder to stand up for what you as an individual believe in, because you wouldn't be wanting to go to prision.
ReplyDeleteFirst off to start, I’d like to write about Nancy Wake, born in New Zealand. Moving to Australia two years later Nancy studied in Sydney to become a journalist. Mrs. Wake moved to Europe to live out her career, being able to see the Adolf Hitler at his best, a few years later she was forced to go into hiding because of the French Resistance being betrayed, although she still continued her work for them.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, I will write about Jessica Mitford. Born in 1917 in Oxfordshire, being educated at home by her mother. Her sister grew to be close friend’s with Adolf Hitler…scary. After her sister changed to solialist, she and her sister thought seriously about murdering Hitler. Writing about how she wasn’t able to murder him for many different reasons, she found work as a journalist for the News Chronicle with her soon to be husband in which she married in June 1937.
Lastly, I will write about Denise Jacob. She was born in Nice, in the year 1924. Her and her family were occupied by the Italian Army. Denise helped Jews find safe places while she was a member of the Frence Resistance. After a year of helping she was imprisoned and deported. She was a survivor and lived to be awarded the Medal of the Resistance!
For this assignment i chose to wrote about the women in the war effort. The first one i will
ReplyDeletemention is Pearl Witherington. Pearl was born on 24 June 1914 in Paris, France. She joined the
Special Operations Executive (SOE) during WWII. After she was given the code name ‘Maria’
she dropped from a parachute on 22 September 1943 and landed in occupied France. This is
where she joined Maurice Southgate, the leader of the Stationer Network. Where she worked as
Southgate's courier. In May 1944 Southgate was arrested by the Gestapo, which encouraged Pearl
to reorganize the group. She became the leader of the new Wrestler Network in the Valencay-
Issoudun-Chateauroux triangle. Alongside Henri Cornioley, Witherington organized over 1,500
members of the Marquis, which they later helped fight against the German Army on the D-Day
Landings.
The second women is Violette Bushell. Born on 24 June 1921 in France. She was the daughter of
an English father and a French mother. Later her family moved from France to London, England.
She attended school at Brixton Secondary School until the age of 14 when she left to be a
hairdresser’s assistant and later to be a sales assistant in Woolsworths. Violette meet her husband
to be during WWII, his name was Etienne Szabo. He was an officer in the Free French Army.
The couple decided to get married on 21 August 1940, which later they found that Etienne was
being sent to fight in North Africa. Violette became very involed in the war effort when after
giving birth to Tania, she found that her husband had been killed at El Alamein. This is when she
joined the SOE. There were some conflict over her joining, but Colonel Maurice Buckmaster
overruled the arguments and accepted her and she was parachuted to France. She was arrested
later by the French police and after six weeks she was realized and returned to England. Later she
went back to France in June 1944 and again she was captured and tortured by Gestapo, then sent
to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp in Germany. In the spring of 1945, she was executed, and
posthumously awarded Croix de Guerre and the George Cross.
For this assignment i chose to wrote about the women in the war effort. The first one i will
ReplyDeletemention is Pearl Witherington. Pearl was born on 24 June 1914 in Paris, France. She joined the
Special Operations Executive (SOE) during WWII. After she was given the code name ‘Maria’
she dropped from a parachute on 22 September 1943 and landed in occupied France. This is
where she joined Maurice Southgate, the leader of the Stationer Network. Where she worked as
Southgate's courier. In May 1944 Southgate was arrested by the Gestapo, which encouraged Pearl
to reorganize the group. She became the leader of the new Wrestler Network in the Valencay-
Issoudun-Chateauroux triangle. Alongside Henri Cornioley, Witherington organized over 1,500
members of the Marquis, which they later helped fight against the German Army on the D-Day
Landings.
The second women is Violette Bushell. Born on 24 June 1921 in France. She was the daughter of
an English father and a French mother. Later her family moved from France to London, England.
She attended school at Brixton Secondary School until the age of 14 when she left to be a
hairdresser’s assistant and later to be a sales assistant in Woolsworths. Violette meet her husband
to be during WWII, his name was Etienne Szabo. He was an officer in the Free French Army.
The couple decided to get married on 21 August 1940, which later they found that Etienne was
being sent to fight in North Africa. Violette became very involed in the war effort when after
giving birth to Tania, she found that her husband had been killed at El Alamein. This is when she
joined the SOE. There were some conflict over her joining, but Colonel Maurice Buckmaster
overruled the arguments and accepted her and she was parachuted to France. She was arrested
later by the French police and after six weeks she was realized and returned to England. Later she
went back to France in June 1944 and again she was captured and tortured by Gestapo, then sent
to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp in Germany. In the spring of 1945, she was executed, and
posthumously awarded Croix de Guerre and the George Cross.
Nangy, i liked your essay. I like how you gave statistics on the women nurses and how you mentioned that the only out of necessity did women recieve a "man's job." Great Essay!
ReplyDeleteEmily Underwood, I'm glad to see i'm not the only one doing my homework quite late.. haha. Anyway, I like your essay, short and sweet.(; I must make a comment on how the Mitford lady's sister becoming friend with Hilter is quite frightening. I wonder how she felt after seeing all the distruction Hilter caused. Yikes! As for Denise Jacob, I find it so amazing to hear stories about people that risked their own lives to save te lives of other. That's so awesome! Again, good job!
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