Vera Atkins
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Vera May Atkins was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer who was the Deputy Director of the France Section of the Special Operations Executive from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War.
Squadron Officer Vera Atkins, WAAF, in 1946
Vera Atkins historical marker - Spymaster WWII
Rudolf Vrba
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Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He escaped from the camp in April 1944, at the height
Vera Atkins
…Atkins" was her mother's maiden name and itself an Anglicised version of the original "Etkins", which she adopted as her own. She was a cousin of Rudolf Vrba. Atkins was recruited before the war by Canadian spymaster Sir William Stephenson of British Security Co-ordination. He sent her on fact-finding missions…
Vrba in New York, November 1978, during an interview with Claude Lanzmann for the documentary Shoah
Vrba at school (front row, fourth left), Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1935–1936
Trnava, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia, 2014)
Majdanek concentration camp, 2008