Lilian Vera Rolfe (* 26 April 1914 in Paris, "† 5 February 1945 in was a British against the national socialism and member of the in the Second World War (occurring wrong ways of writing: Liliane instead of Lilian, Verna instead of Vera)

Lilian Verna and its twin sister Helen Fedora were the daughters of George Samuel Blackburn Rolfe, a British, long year in of Paris living and working chartered accoutant. Although Rolfe was in of Paris buildup, it as a young girl frequently with its grandparents living in London to guest. 1930 drew the family from vocational reasons to Brazil, where the father had found a new activity and where the daughters locked their school.

With outbreak of the Second World War Rolfe at the British consulate was active in Rio de Janeiro, went however soon to London, where she joined 1943 the Women's Auxiliary air Force (WAAF). Due to its flowing French Sprachkenntnisse it was assigned to the intelligence organization Special operation Executive (SOE), where it received training as Agentin and Funkerin.

On 5 April 1944 it, equipped with a tiny radio receiver and Funksender, jumped off with the parachute over in the occupied France, in order to push to the "Historian circuit", a group of resistances around George Alfred "teddy" Wilkinson. She worked under the pseudonyms Nadine and Claudie and your major task became it to convey messages of the Maquis and other important sources as well as information from local scenes to London. Apart from this radio operator activity, which contained also the report over troop movements of the Nazis, she took part actively in missions of the Among other things it was involved on the side by members in a fire fight in the village Olivet south of

The D-Day landings entailed a agressive people hunt of the Gestapo, in whose process also Rolfes of superior Wilkinson was arrested. It continued their work steadfastly nevertheless up to its own arrest on 31 July 1944 in Nargis. After it had been transferred into the prison by Fresnes in Paris, it was cross-examined and tortured several times. With transport No. I.260 it to 8.8.44 starting from Paris, refine de l'Est, to Saarbruecken, KZ new Bremm, arrived 9.8.44, deportiert. Afterwards it was spent still in August 1944 into the KZ

According to a statement of a German officer after end of war it was already so heavily hurt at this time that it could not go any longer independently. On 5 February 1945 the in as well as the other female SOE members Denise Bloch, Cecily Lefort and violet Szabo was executed by a neck shot.

In Great Britain Lilian Rolfe Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, England is honoured. The "Lilian Rolfe House" in Lambeth was furnished to its memory. The French government lent postum the Croix de Guerre and in Montargis in the Loiret - where she had worked during the war, to it a road after it was designated. When one of the 91 men and 13 women, who died in the Second World War for the liberty of France, became it in the "roll OF Honor" on the SOE Memorial in in the Indre perpetuated.

See also

• Women in the

Related links

• Of Alan Rolfe (Lilian Rolfes half brother) written Biografie (English)
• Roll OF Honor of the SOE Memorial (English)
• SOE actions in France (English and French)

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