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October 2, 2023

The French Catholic Resistance Operative Who Married the Leader of an Ultra-Orthodox Sect and Helped Rescue Jews in Muslim Lands

Rescuer, convert, rebbetzin, spy.

Born in France in 1920, Madeleine Lucette Ferraille was by all accounts both attractive and highly intelligent. During the last years of World War II, she saved a Jew from the Nazis, joined the Resistance, and infiltrated the SS. Thereafter her life took one of its many unexpected twists and turns, as recounted by Motti Inbari in his recent biography. Allan Arkush writes in his review:

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October 2, 2023

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