Noor Inayat Khan
See also: Noor
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, known under the name of Noor Inayat Khan , born on January 1st 1914 with Moscow and carried out the September 13rd 1944 with Dachau, is a British secret agent of the Special Operations Executive, SOE ) section F during the Second War mondiale.
Great Britain decreed the to him George Cross (GC) on a purely posthumous basis, as well as the Member off British Empire (MBE) , and France the Military Cross 1939-1945 .
Biography
Noor was born in Russia, with Moscow, of an Indian Moslem father (Pir Inayat Khan) and of an American mother (Ora Ray Baker); it was a Moslem princess soufi, downward of the sultan Tipu de Mysore. His/her father, a Moslem mystic, had been invited in Russia by Gregoire Raspoutine to share with the tsar Nicolas II of Russia the soufic doctrines of peace and love.The family left the Russia before the Révolution Bolshevik of 1917 and ends up arriving at Paris. Noor studied with the Teacher training school of music and was engaged by Radio Paris to write stories for the children.
The arrival of the Second world war led the family to flee again, towards England this time.
Wanting to take part in the fight against totalitarianism, Noor engaged in the Women' S Auxiliary Air Force . Its perfect knowledge of France and French highly interested the British ministry of the war. Temporary sailing officer, it sails under various names: Madeleine , Rolande , Marijuana , Norah Becker .
After an intensive formation as radio operator operator, it was the first woman in this function with being infiltrated in occupied France, the June 16th 1943. It lands on board an ultralight monoplane, with a popular profession good children , and equipment which includes/understands tickets of food, an automatic pistol, stimulants to be held waked up, sleeping pills to deaden somebody without his knowledge, simulators of nauseas and Cyanure.
Shortly after its arrival, the Germans carried out massive arrests of resistant. One proposed in Noor to return to England, but she preferred to continue her work not to leave her French comrades without communications. She transmits a great number of messages towards England, of which that of the replacement of Jean Moulin by Georges Bidault with the head of the National council of Resistance.
After three months and half, the October 13rd 1943, it is stopped Rue of the Pheasantry with Paris, betrayed by the sister of the chief of the Cinéma sub-network.
She refused to give to the Gestapo least information.
After two fallen through attempts at escape, and after having refused to sign a declaration which it would not try any more to escape, Noor was transferred in Germany, with Karlsruhe in November 1943, then with Pforzheim. The September 12th 1944, it was transferred to Dachau, and was carried out with three other female agents of the SOE (Yolande Beekman, Eliane Plewman and Madeleine Damerment) the next day.
In 1949, Noor accepted the George Cross on a purely posthumous basis for its courage, as well as MBE and the Military Cross. In addition to Noor, the George Cross was decreed during the Second world war only with two other women, Odette Hallowes and Violette Szabo.
Sources
- Jean Overton Fuller, Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan: Madeleine , 1988. Its biography (in English).
- Laurent Joffrin, the forgotten princess , Robert Laffont, 2002. A historical novel based on its vie.
External bond
- Princess Noor Appreciation Society