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    Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, OBE, GM (Polish pronunciation: [krɨˈstɨna ˈskarbɛk], /krɪstiːnə skɑːrbɛk/; 1 May 1908 – 15 June 1952), also known as Christine...
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  • British Special Operations Executive during the Second World War, Krystyna Skarbek. It also starring Frederick Schmidt, Agata Kulesza, Ingvar Sigurdsson...
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  • marathon swimmer Krystyna Pyszková (born 1999), Czech model and Miss World 2023 Krystyna Radziwiłł (1560-1580), Polish noblewoman Krystyna Skarbek (1915-1952)...
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  • biographer of notable women. Her subjects have included Eglantyne Jebb; Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville; Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg;...
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  • Donald McCormick claimed that Fleming based Vesper on Polish agent Krystyna Skarbek, who was working for Special Operations Executive when he knew her...
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    Papers 2018 Valentina Prest Looted 2019 Kasia The French Dispatch 2021 Girlfriend The Palace 2023 Zula The Partisan 2024 Krystyna Skarbek Post-production...
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  • west from the invading Soviets. By war's end, Skarbek arrived in Britain. His cousin was Krystyna Skarbek, who worked for British secret services (the...
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    first disabled man to complete SOE's parachute training. (His lover, Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, was the longest serving female agent of SOE...
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    of Poland across the Tatra Mountains into Hungary for the Allies by Krystyna Skarbek and fellow Polish couriers. The rifle never saw service with the Allies...
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    British musician Fryderyk Skarbek (1792–1866), Polish economist Honorata Skarbek (born 1992), Polish singer Krystyna Skarbek (1908–1952), Polish intelligence...
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  • including some Polish idioms that Skarbek (or Kowerski) translated metaphrastically – literally – into English. Krystyna Skarbek Poglish [1][dead link‍] Timesonline...
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  • Madeleine Masson, in her biography of the Polish World War II S.O.E. agent Krystyna Skarbek, quotes her as speaking of "lying on the sun" and astutely surmises...
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    Rubinstein (1887 – 1982) Julian Tuwim (1894 – 1953), died in Zakopane Krystyna Skarbek (1908 – 1952) Stanisław Lem (1921 – 2006) Charles III (born 1948) Aerial...
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  • Year 2000" – in The Polish Review, vol. XLVIII, no. 3, 2003, p. 387. "Krystyna Skarbek: Re-viewing Britain's Legendary Polish Agent", The Polish Review, vol...
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  • for example, ranged from aristocrats such as Polish-born Countess Krystyna Skarbek, and Noor Inayat Khan, the daughter of an Indian Sufi leader, to working-class...
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    Williams, seconded to SIS from GCHQ, died under suspicious circumstances. Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, agent in Poland and Eastern Europe; later...
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    Giles Milton (John Murray, 2016) Edmund Charaszkiewicz Jan Kowalewski Krystyna Skarbek "No. 37407". The London Gazette. 28 December 1945. p. 8. Ashby, Bill...
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    "Hallowes" and "Churchill." Survived Ravensbruck Concentration Camp. Krystyna Skarbek Poland 1908 1952 GM, OBE, CdeG 6 July 1944, parachute Code name: Pauline;...
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  • Eglantyne Jebb, the Founder of the British charity Save the Children, and Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, Britain's first female special agent of World...
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  • celebrity chef, food writer Don Pacifico, cause of the Pacifico incident Krystyna Skarbek, spy Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen, Lord Mayor of London Sir Jame-Landold...
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    celebrated Polish World War II Special Operations Executive agent Krystyna Skarbek, a.k.a. Christine Granville, used Svengali as a metaphor when saying...
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    Yugoslavia. An unknown number of Poles (including the best known, Krystyna Skarbek) were also parachuted into France by the British Special Operations...
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  • Polish Army officer and World War II British SOE agent; colleague of Krystyna Skarbek Ryszard Kukliński, Polish Army colonel, Cold War CIA master spy Jerzy...
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    creator of "Dr. Fu Manchu" Mary Seacole (1805–1881) nurse, humanitarian Krystyna Skarbek (aka Christine Granville) (1908–1952), Polish SOE agent and World War...
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    served in other Allied intelligence services, including the celebrated Krystyna Skarbek ("Christine Granville") in the United Kingdom's Special Operations...
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  • they were associated with the French resistance. m. On August 17, Krystyna Skarbek, a.k.a. Christine Granville, a Polish-born SOE operative and Cammaerts'...
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    (1918-2011) – Kleinian psychoanalyst Karol Sikora (born 1948) – oncologist Krystyna Skarbek (1908–1952) – SOE agent Władysław Świątecki (1895–1944) – invented...
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  • Jacqueline Nearne Eliane Plewman Lilian Rolfe Yvonne Rudellat Sue Ryder Krystyna Skarbek Violette Szabo Nancy Wake Pearl Witherington Julia Pirie Mary Railton...
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    and British intelligence agents and couriers, including the notable Krystyna Skarbek, used Hungary's Carpathian Rus' as a route across the Carpathian Mountains...
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    the Krakow Post reported that Holland would direct a biopic about Krystyna Skarbek entitled Christine: War My Love. Her 2011 film, In Darkness, was selected...
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