'Spy Princess' Noor Inayat Khan honored by UK

November 10, 2012

UK honored and remembered the sacrifice of Ms Noor Inayat Khan by unveiling a bronze bust of hers at the central London Gordon Square Gardens near the house where she lived. It is said to be the first such memorial in Britain dedicated to a Muslim and the first in honour of an Asian woman.

About “Noor Inayat Khan”:

Noor Inayat Khan (January 2, 1914 – 13 September 13, 1944)
Noor Inayat Khan (also known as "Nora Baker" and "Madeleine"), she was of Indian Sufi origin.
Born in Moscow to an Indian father, Hazrat Inayat Khan and an American mother, Ora Ray Baker. Her father was great-grandson of Tipu Sultan. Thus, Noor was a direct descendant of Tipu Sultan, the e 18th century ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore who had refused to submit to British rule and was killed in battle in 1799.
British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War.
She became the first female radio operator to be sent into occupied France to aid the French Resistance to the Nazis.
She was eventually betrayed, captured and killed in Dachau Concentration Camp by the Gestapo at the age of 30.
Gestapo = The secret state police in Nazi Germany; known for its terrorist methods.
Her last word was “Liberte”
Posthumously awarded the George Cross for her work in France and for revealing nothing of use to her interrogators despite being tortured by the Gestapo for 10 months.