Eliane Sophy Plewman, daughter of an British father and Spanish mother, was born in 1917. She was executed at Dachau concentration camp on 13 Sep 1944.
CODE NAME:
Gaby
Gaby
After the outbreak of WWII, Eliane worked for the British Embassies in Madrid and Lisbon. In 1942 she went to Britain to work for the Spanish section of the Ministry of Information. That same summer she married British army officer Tom Plewman. Later she joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and was given a code name "Gaby."
On 13–14 Aug 1943 Eliane parachuted into France and joined the Monk resistance network of Charles Skepper. She worked as a courier in the area of Marseilles, Roquebrune and St. Raphael.
When the network was betrayed in March 1944, Plewman was also arrested. The Gestapo interrogated her for three weeks and then transferred her to Fresnes Prison. On 13 May 1944 the Germans transferred her and three other SOE agents (Yolande Beekman, Madeleine Damerment and Noor Inayat Khan) to prison at Karlsruhe. On 10 Sep they were transferred to the Dachau concentration camp where she, Beekman, Damermant and Inayat Khan were forced to kneel in pairs and were executed by a single shot to the head on 13 Sep 1944.
On 13–14 Aug 1943 Eliane parachuted into France and joined the Monk resistance network of Charles Skepper. She worked as a courier in the area of Marseilles, Roquebrune and St. Raphael.
When the network was betrayed in March 1944, Plewman was also arrested. The Gestapo interrogated her for three weeks and then transferred her to Fresnes Prison. On 13 May 1944 the Germans transferred her and three other SOE agents (Yolande Beekman, Madeleine Damerment and Noor Inayat Khan) to prison at Karlsruhe. On 10 Sep they were transferred to the Dachau concentration camp where she, Beekman, Damermant and Inayat Khan were forced to kneel in pairs and were executed by a single shot to the head on 13 Sep 1944.
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