Andrée Borrel
French Resistance member and SOE agent (1919-1944) · France · On the map · Died at 24
Andrée Raymonde Borrel, code named Denise, was a French woman who served in the French Resistance and as an agent for Britain's clandestine Special Operations Executive in World War II.
Andrée Borrel is read about 60 times a day, in 6 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 18 August 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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German troops in Paris (1940).
Royal Victoria Patriotic Building
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley in flight c1940.
Fresnes Prison
Natzweiler-Struthof camp entrance. Monument to the Departed in background.
View of former Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp in 2010. The cellblock is the building on the left and the crematorium is the building on the right.
The crematorium at Natzweiler-StruthofAwards
About this person
The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE agents allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England.
Country
France
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1919 to 1944 · aged 24
