Category: Vera Obolensky

• Russian-born Princess Véra Obolensky Guillotined by the Nazis in Berlin. August 4, 1944.

  

  On August 4, 1944, Russian-born Princess Véra Obolensky was guillotined by the Nazis at Ploetzensee prison in Berlin. She began working for the French Resistance in late 1940. Arrested in Paris in late 43, she was sentenced to death in Arras in May 1944 and then deported to Germany.

  August 4, 2024

  1940s, event & history, France, French Forces of the Interior (FFI), French Resistance, Guillotined, History Daily, Organisation civile et militaire (OCM), Vera Obolensky, World War II

  1940s, event & history, France, French Forces of the Interior (FFI), French Resistance, Guillotined, History Daily, Organisation civile et militaire (OCM), Vera Obolensky, World War II