Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo (née Bushell)
(1921-1945), Special Operations Executive agent and officer in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY)Sitter in 1 portrait
Violette Szabo was a British secret agent during the Second World War. Born in Paris, she moved to London with her family where she worked in the Bon Marché department store in Brixton. Szabo was involved in a number of dangerous missions in Nazi-occupied France, was captured by the Germans and executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1945.
Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo (née Bushell)
by This Ain't Rock 'N' Roll, after Unknown artist
currency note, 2011
NPG D48062
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shaniqua Bushell - Robinson
05 August 2020, 00:56
Violette Szabo was shot by German solders. Violette was the last female SOE to be killed (Special Operations Executive agent). Violette became a SOE 6 months after her partner was killed in action, at the start when Violette was first asked to become a SOE she was not sure about it, it took 3 months for Violette to say yes but the one thing she did not like about the rules of the job was she could not tell her family she was a SOE. One of the reasons she became a SOE was her daughter.