Cohn changed her mind when her brother contracted Parkinson’s Disease in 1996. “I decided I owed that to him,” said Cohn of her brother, who died in 2001. “So in 1998 I finally decided to ...

Marthe Cohn, who has died aged 105, was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in France; she survived the Holocaust, and after the liberation of Paris in 1944 she joined the French First Army ...

Marthe Cohn spied on the Nazis and kept it secret for decades; now, at age 100, a documentary tells her story Coronavirus pandemic derailed her plans to attend Los Angeles premiere of the film ...

JTA — Marthe Cohn, a Holocaust survivor and nurse who went behind Nazi enemy lines on behalf of French intelligence and helped undermine the German military in the waning days of World War II ...

Marthe Cohn didn’t think twice when she was recruited as a spy in 1944. The French Jewish woman had seen so many in her family and community killed and suffering at the hands of the Nazis.

When she was asked to spy for the French army, Marthe Cohn recalled decades later, she didn’t hesitate before saying yes. It was late 1944, months before the end of World War II in Europe.

Marthe Cohn, 97, tells how she became a spy in Germany during World War II. The French government has recognized her with, among other awards, Medaille of the Reconnaissance de la Nation in 2006.

Marthe Cohn speaking at F&M's Common Hour seated with her husband, Major Cohn. Cohn was a French nurse who went behind German lines in WWII as a spy. Thursday, September 5, 2019.

Marthe Cohn is coming to Portland to tell how she infiltrated World War II Germany for the Free French Forces. Sign in or Subscribe See Offers. Sign In: Login. Forgot password?

Marthe Cohn crossed into Germany as a French spy in 1945. More than 70 years later, she's telling her story. News Sports Business NoCo Life Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals ...

Risking her life for two years as a spy in Nazi Germany, Rancho Palos Verdes resident Marthe Cohn quietly helped win World War II. Her best weapons: Her language skills and her memory. Cohn waited ...

Marthe Cohn, a Holocaust survivor and nurse who went behind Germany enemy lines on behalf of French intelligence and helped undermine the German military in the waning days of World War II, died ...