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 ...

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.

She was 105. Born Marthe Hoffnug in Metz, France, on April 13, 1920, Marie was arrested in June 1942 and sent to the Route de Limoges camp for “foreign” Jews in occupied France.

Marthe Cohn's Behind Enemy Lines, by contrast, makes no pretensions to anything other than what it is: a first-rate story simply and movingly told. The title is somewhat misleading -- this memoir ...

It wasn't until years after the end of World War II that Marthe Cohn, now 95, learned what happened to her sister. The Cohns were an Orthodox Jewish family living in France during the war and when ...

I just did the job that I needed to do,” Marthe Cohn said. Cohn was 24 when she was asked to be a spy for the Free France government. “During the war you age very fast.

Marthe Cohn was born in Metz, France, in April 1920 to an Orthodox Jewish family. When Germany invaded, the family moved south, but one of Cohn's sisters was sent to Auschwitz. After the ...