Krystyna Skarbek
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Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek,, also known as Christine Granville, was a Polish agent of the British Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. She became celebrated for her daring expl
Journalist Frederick Voigt introduced Skarbek to SIS
Gen. Colin Gubbins, executive head of SOE from 1943
Gen. Stanisław Kopański, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces in the West (1943–46)
Maquisards (Resistance fighters) in the vicinity of Savournon in the Hautes-Alpes in August 1944. SOE agents are second from right, (possibly) Skarbek, third John Roper, fourth, Robert Purvis.
Andrzej Kowerski
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Andrzej Kowerski was a Polish Army officer and SOE agent during World War II. From 1941 he used the nom de guerre Andrew Kennedy.
Krystyna Skarbek
…usual for women. She also became an expert skier during visits to Zakopane in the Tatra Mountains of southern Poland. At the family stables, she met Andrzej Kowerski, whose father had brought him over to play with ten-year-old Krystyna while he and her father discussed agricultural matters. The 1920s left the family…
Krystyna Skarbek's grave in St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, with Andrzej Kowerski her partner in life and service in SOE