Marthe Cohn

Marthe Hoffnung Cohn was a French nurse, spy, Holocaust survivor and author, born on 13 April 1920 and died on 20 May 2025. She wrote about her experiences as a spy at the end of the Second World War in her book Behind Enemy Lines, published in 2002. Her life combined nursing with wartime intelligence work and, later, public testimony as a survivor and writer. She appears in this atlas as a nurse whose career was shaped by war, and the entry rests on the short summary of her life that the encyclopedia article gives in its lead, so the account of her work is deliberately brief.