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    Virginia d'Albert-Lake (née Roush; June 4, 1910 – September 20, 1997) was an American member of the French Resistance during World War II. She worked with...
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    where they could await the arrival of the Allied armies. American Virginia d'Albert-Lake and her French husband Philippe assisted in gathering airmen in...
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    ISBN 978-0-89096-629-7 Virginia d'Albert-Lake, An American Heroine in the French Resistance: The Diary and Memoir of Virginia d'Albert-Lake, Fordham University...
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    feet. Trygve Bratteli (Norwegian Resistance, later Prime Minister) Virginia d'Albert-Lake (American) Charles Delestraint (French Resistance) Andrée de Jongh...
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    of the few American-born women interned by the Nazis, along with Virginia d'Albert-Lake. La Guardia was a man of short stature; his height is sometimes...
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  • (2014). "Virginia d'Albert-Lake, une Américaine dans la Résistance: Aspects internationaux et rôle des femmes dans les réseaux" [Virginia d'Albert-Lake, an...
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    inmate American Virginia d'Albert-Lake, constantly planned to escape. While at Ravensbrück, Szabo, Denise Bloch, Lilian Rolfe and Lake were among 1,000...
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    Légion d'Honneur, executed by the Nazis, born in Dinard in 1918, Virginia d'Albert-Lake, French Resistance fighter Robert W. Service – Scottish poet and...
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    work camp and escaping. Englishwoman Mary Lindell and American Virginia d'Albert-Lake, both leaders of escape and evasion lines in France, survived. Another...
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  • and he arranged with Philippe d'Albert-Lake, head of the Comet Line in Paris, and his American wife, Virginia d'Albert-Lake, to set up a system of guides...
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  • cricket player. Matt Christopher, 80, American children's author. Virginia d'Albert-Lake, 87, American French Resistance agent during World War II. Kurt...
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    Line, German agent Michael Creswell, British diplomat in Spain Virginia d'Albert-Lake, American, Comet Line, Marathon Madeleine Damerment, French, Pat...
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    Charles d'Albert (10 April 1864 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish-born pianist and composer who emigrated to Germany. Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed...
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    to the camps, an American woman active in the French resistance, Virginia d'Albert-Lake, was captured and imprisoned by the Germans. A British officer,...
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    In June 1944, French resident of American citizenship, Virginia Roush, married to d'Albert Lake, was arrested near the village, she may have been tortured...
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    on the second floor of a house owned by her friends François and Juliet d'Albert Durade on the rue de Chanoines (now the rue de la Pelisserie). She commented...
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    to discover that it’s the target of an h-bomb test. Guest stars: Pierre D'Albert (Jacques Bergerac), Carol Miller (Kathleen Crowley), Barrie Connell (Tuesday...
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    South   Ivan Lewis 28,658 (56.9%) David Sumberg 16,277 (32.3%) Victor D'Albert 4,227 (8.4%) Bryan Slater 1,216 (2.4%)   David Sumberg Eccles   Ian Stewart...
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    Maeterlinck, a semi-Viverist work of symbolist inspiration. In Germany, Eugen d'Albert was a prolific composer, author of some twenty operas, including Die Abreise...
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    Party films, instead wanting to direct a feature film based on Eugen d'Albert's Tiefland ("Lowlands"), an opera that was extremely popular in Berlin in...
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    Camille Pissarro Georges Seurat Alfred Sisley Agustín Lizárraga Eugen d'Albert Hugo Alfvén Egbert Van Alstyne Broncho Billy Anderson Fatty Arbuckle Louis...
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  • – Windesheim Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt Villa Teresa, dedicated to Eugen d'Albert and Teresa Carreño – Coswig Kurt Weill Centre, dedicated to Kurt Weill...
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  • prince Zhuang of the First Rank (d. 1767) July 30 – Charles Philippe d'Albert de Luynes, French noble (d. 1758) August 1 – John Rutherford, Scottish...
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    by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. April 24 – Encouraged by Charles d'Albert, seventeen-year-old Louis XIII, king of France, forces his mother Marie...
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    Genovesi, Italian philosopher (b. 1712) September 23 – Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly, French astronomer (b. 1714) September 27 – Anna Karolina Orzelska...
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  • at 97 Помер український політик Анатолій Матвієнко (in Ukrainian) Décès d'Albert Memmi (in French) Бивши репрезентативац Миљан Мрдаковић извршио самоубиство...
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    dance by the "Volatees", the lunar race. January 22 – In France, Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, and his wife, the Duchess Marie de Rohan, sign a marriage...
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  • Howard, Viscount Andover, British MP (d. 1756) December 31 Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly, French astronomer (d. 1769) Arima Yoriyuki, Japanese daimyō (d...
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    Belgica of Nassau, regent of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1648) August 5 – Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, first duke of Chaulnes (d. 1621) August 10 – Matteo Rosselli...
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    slightly for the rest of his life. The opera Tiefland, composed by Eugen d'Albert, received its world premiere at the Neues Deutsches Theater in Prague....
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