This Week at RBRC: June 11, 2014

This week our speaker will be...

Marthe Cohn

Marthe Cohn just turned 94 and was a spy in the French Resistance during World War II and was instrumental in ending the war by telling the French the Germans had abandoned the Ziegfried Line.  She never told her story until in her 80's and wrote a book entitled Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany.  She is jewish and born in Metz, France and spoke both German and French fluently which made her a great spy.  She was able to smuggle out her entire family in to hiding, except her sister, Stephanie, who died in Auschwitz.  Marthe has been married to Major for 56 years, has 2 sons and one granddaughter and lives in Palos Verdes, California.  She is tiny but demonstrative and an absolute jewel.