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Noor Inayat Khan
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC, also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British-Indian agent in France in the Second World War who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers, especially those occupied by Nazi Germany.
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culture · WW2 SOE British agent (1914–1944) · poet · writer · children's writer · resistance fighter · SOE agent · soldier · also Noor Inayat Khan, Noor Khan, Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, Khan
Born 1 January 1914 · Died 13 September 1944 · Q464957
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2025· 4 entries
The Telegraph: France honours Second World War spy Noor Inayat Khan with stamp marking French Resistance heroes
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NDTV: France Honours British Indian Spy Noor Inayat Khan With New Postage Stamp
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The Hindu: British Indian spy Noor Inayat Khan honoured with new postage stamp in France
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2024· 1 entry
Wondery produced a 5-part dramatised series on Noor's life as part of 'The Spy Who
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2022· 2 entries
BroadwayWorld: NOOR INAYAT KHAN: THE FORGOTTEN SPY Premieres At The Hollywood Fringe Festival
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Almanya Narula's one-woman show, Noor Inayat Khan: The Forgotten Spy, was performed at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in Los Angeles, California
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2020· 2 entries
Yahoo News UK: Noor Inayat Khan: Muslim war hero who became 'unlikely spy' for Britain in WWII honoured with blue plaque
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Monsters and Critics: Who is Noor Inayat Khan? Doctor Who introduces another historical figure in Season 12
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2018· 4 entries
WRAL: Overlooked No More: Noor Inayat Khan, Indian Princess and British Spy
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A play based on the life and death of Khan, entitled Agent Madeleine, premiered at the Ottawa Fringe Festival, Khan was played by Puja Uppal
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Netflix released an original series entitled Churchill's Secret Agents: the new recruits
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A campaign was launched to have Noor represented on the next version of the £50 note
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2014· 2 entries
Was based on Noor Inayat Khan's wartime career, up to her death in Nazi Germany
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PBS aired a 60-minute biographical docudrama entitled Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story, executive produced by Alex Kronemer and Michael Wolfe of Unity Productions Foundation and directed by Robert H
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1958· 1 entry
An anonymous Dutch prisoner asserted that Noor was cruelly beaten by an SS officer named Wilhelm Ruppert before she was shot from behind
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1949· 1 entry
Awarded George Cross (1949).
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1946· 1 entry
Could not be awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire, but her commission as Assistant Section Officer was gazetted in June (with effect from 5 July 1944), and she was Mentioned in Despatches in October 19
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1944· 1 entry
Died 1944-09-13.
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1943· 1 entry
An operator's life expectancy was six weeks
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1939· 1 entry
Her book Twenty Jataka Tales, inspired by the Jataka tales of Buddhist tradition, was published in London by George G
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1927· 1 entry
13-year-old Noor took on the responsibility for her younger siblings from her grief-stricken mother
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1920· 1 entry
The family moved to France, settling in Suresnes near Paris, in a house that was a gift from a benefactor of the Sufi movement
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1914· 2 entries
Born 1914-01-01.
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Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, the family left Russia for Britain, and lived in the Bloomsbury neighborhood of London
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