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I do this to save you. Hens, who is not Jewish, says that about 15 years ago she did a film in Israel and keeps going back. Will you give what you can to keep Hey Alma open to all? Get Alma in Your Inbox. By Evelyn Frick. The film premiered in Haifa, and has been shown in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany. I was thinking about my survival.

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By submitting the above I agree to the privacy policy and terms of use of JTA. After the war she wanted a normal life. NYJW Arts. More from New York. She was a woman, a Jew and quite small. I always thought that we were right and the Germans were wrong, and because we were right, we were going to win. By Sandee Brawarsky December 17, pm.

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While the rest of her family fled south, Marthe decided to fight back. He was in a camp in Strasbourg, and he overheard the Germans say that the next day they were going to be transferred to a camp in Germany so he escaped that night and he was able to come home. It's a mitzvah, ya know. Major Cohn is a doctor, and for many years she served as his research assistant.

Mum for 50 years about her dangerous wartime efforts, Marthe Cohn was the unlikeliest of moles. Growing up in Dusseldorf, Germany, Hens says that she studied a lot about World War II in school, but stories of Jewish resistance were not familiar to her. I helped them get rid of the Nazis … which is unbelievable. Soon after, she also recorded her story for the U.

The director first met Cohn at a presentation of another film at Goethe House in Los Angeles in Paris was liberated in August — and Marthe immediately tried to join the army. Thanks to her covert mission, Marthe reported two critical pieces of information to the French intelligence: one, northwest of Freiburg, the Siegfried Line had been evacuated and two, the location of where the German army laid in ambush in the Black Forest.

These are the two [pieces of] advice I give children. Her intelligence gathering was instrumental in allowing the Allies to break through the Siegfried Line — a line of defensive forts and tanks built by Germany in northern France — and enter German territory in , leading to the end of the war. That happened many times during the war. She too tried to join the Resistance but was rebuffed.

My two brothers were in the French army; my oldest brother was on the Maginot Line and my youngest was in Tunisia, where he was doing his service, until , then he was sent back because Jewish kids were not kept in the French army anymore.