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The elusive adventures of Catherine Dior

4 September 2021

9:00 AM

4 September 2021

9:00 AM

Miss Dior: A Study of Courage and Couture Justine Picardie

Haber, pp.448, 25

When Catherine Dior, one of the heroic French Resistance workers captured by the Nazis, came face to face with her torturer at his trial in 1952, to receive the suggestion from his lawyer that it was a case of mistaken identity, she burst out furiously to the judge: ‘I know what I’m saying.

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