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On Sep 13, 1944, a princess from India lay dead at Dachau concentration camp. She had been tortured by the Nazis and then shot in the head. Her name was Noor Inayat Khan.
The Germans knew her only as Nora Baker, a British spy who had gone into occupied France using the code name Madeline. She carried her transmitter from safe house to safe house with the Gestapo trailing her, providing communications for her Resistance unit.
Wireless operators in France had a life expectancy of six weeks. Noor was actively transmitting for over three times as long.
While she was in France, every other wireless operator in her network was slowly picked off until she was the last radio link between London and Paris. It was “the most dangerous and important post in France.”
She was offered a way back to Britain and refused.
In fact, in her transmissions to London, she once said that she was having the time of her life, and thanked them for giving her the opportunity to do this.
She was captured by the Gestapo, but never gave up; she made three attempts at escape. One involved asking to take a bath, insisting on being allowed to close the door to preserve her modesty, and then clambering onto the roof of the Gestapo HQ in Paris.
Her last word before being shot was, “Liberté!”
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Long Live the Spirit of Noor
REFLECTIONS 
Thank you. Noor was the daughter of Hazrat Inayat Khan. His books on Sufism were my introduction to spirituality in 1971.
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Interesting, Alithea! I didn’t know this. I saw the movie about her a year ago and was so moved by her strength and determination. What a courageous soul.
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My grandmother and her sister and brother-in-law were Sufis, followers of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Where did you see the movie about Noor?
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I saw it on Netflix but can’t remember the name. It was a British movie. Excellent!
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