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Toulouse, France – Saturday, 22 July 1944
Ariadna Scriabina (Knout) and two other French Resistance members go to 11 rue de la Pomme, an apartment used as a dead drop in the city of Toulouse. She is carrying false identification papers for other Resistance members. What they do not know is that French Milice is waiting inside.
Born in Bogliasco, Italy, on 26 October 1905, her Russian composer father, Alexander Scriabin, moved around Europe. When her parents divorced, Ariadna continued to lead a bohemian existence in various countries, such as Switzerland and Holland, where she is seen here aged three.
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