Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French
Violette Szabo who was born in Paris Iin 1921 to an English
motor-car dealer, and a French Mother. She met and married Etienne
Szabo, a Captain in the French Foreign Legion in 1940. Shortly
after the birth of her daughter, Tania, her husband died at El
Alamein. She became a FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) and was
recruited into the SOE and underwent secret agent training. Her
first trip to France was completed successfully even though she was
arrested and then released by the French Police. On June 7th, 1944,
Szabo was parachuted into Limoges. Her task was to co-ordinate the
work of the French Resistance in the area in the first days after
D-Day. She was captured by the SS 'Das Reich' Panzer Division and
handed over to the Gestapo in Paris for interrogation. From Paris,
Violette Szabo was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp where she
was executed in January 1945. She was only 23 and for her courage
was posthumously awarded The George Cross and the Croix de Guerre.
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