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Additional Information: In August of the same year that Violette was captured, Violette, Denise Bloch, Lilian Rolfe and thirty-seven other people were taken to Saarbrucken Transit Camp located just inside of Germany's borders. Just before the train reached Saarbrucken, the Allied Forces started bombing nearby areas. With the guards distracted, Violette, Denise, and Lilian were able to get water to the other people in the train cars. The women arrived in Saarbrucken, but ten days later they were transported to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp, where thousands and thousands of people died by the end of the war. Once again the women were taken to another concentration camp, Torgua. They survived under horrific conditions, but they were left in a very weak condition. For their final time, Violette, Denise, and Lilian were transported back to Ravensbruck. They were kept in solitary confinement and brutally assaulted. But on February 5, 1945 Violette Szabo, Denise Bloch, and Lilian Rolfe were taken out back behind a Ravensbruck crematorium and shot in the back of the head. Violette was the only one of the three to be able to walk at the time. Violette was only twenty-three at the time of her death.

This photo depicts Ravensbruck Concentration Camp for women located in Northern Germany. Ravensbruck is where Violette Szabo and two other female spies died from being shot in the back of the head, after enduring months of torture.

 

 

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