Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins & the Missing Agents of WWII (44 page)

Vera with John da Cunha in Hamburg during the Ravensbrück trial, December 1946. [Courtesy of John da Cunha]

Sturmbannführer Hans Kieffer at his desk in Avenue Foch. [Courtesy of Kieffer family]

Horst Kopkow, SS counterintelligence chief in Berlin. [Berlin Document Centre]

Fritz Suhren, Kommandant of Ravensbrück concentration camp. [Atkins Papers]

The drawings in blood made by Yolande Beekman in her cell at Karlsruhe prison, 1944. The captions read: “Elise dreams… Tomorrow we will eat…” and (though the German is not perfect) “The bad girl's room.” [Courtesy of Erich Johe]

Natzweiler concentration camp on Struthof Mountain, Alsace. [Weiner Library]

A coat worn by a Natzweiler prisoner designated N+N (Nacht und Nebel).
[Atkins Papers]

Vera's sketch of the crematorium building at Natzweiler, 1946.
[Imperial War Museum]

Brian Stonehouse's sketches of women prisoners walking down the Lagerstrasse at Natzweiler. [Imperial War Museum]

The Natzweiler defendants in the dock at the 1946 trial held at Wuppertal. Right to left: Zeuss, Straub, Meier, Wochner, Hartjenstein, Berg, Rohde, Brüttel, and Aus dem Bruch. [Wiener Library]

Vera (left) with Hedwig Rosenberg, her sister-in-law, and Odette (right) at the time of the London opening of Odette, 1950. [Atkins Papers]

Vera with Virginia McKenna and Paul Scofield during the filming of Carve Her Name with Pride at Pinewood Studios. [Atkins Papers]

Vera walking with Buckmaster in the garden of his retirement home in East Sussex, late 1980s. [Atkins Papers]