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CarveHerName

"My comrades, who did far more and suffered more profoundly than I, are not here to speak. Because of this, I speak for them."

, 16 April 1943, Special Operations Executive agent Odette Samsom is arrested by the Gestapo in France. The British SOE worked with the French resistance.

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photo of Odette Samson in her First Aid Nursing Yeomanry uniform. She is a white woman with dark hair.
Odette Samsom with her three daughters before the war. She is a white woman with dark hair and is sat in a garden chair, with the three girls around her.
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After multiple interrogations and torture, Samsom was sent Ravensbruck concentration camp in June 1943. Surviving until liberation in 1945, she testified against the camp guards. She received the George Cross for bravery.

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