#3february — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #3february, aggregated by home.social.
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#OnThisDay in 1905, Andrée Peel née Virot was born.
She joined the French Resistance during World War II and saved the lives of 102 allied pilots. Andrée survived torture and concentration camps. She later lived for many years in Long Ashton with her husband. Her autobiography is named Miracles Do Happen and I highly recommend it.
The quote is taken from her autobiography and it appears in Unsung Women in Somerset.
#wwii #womenInHistory #unsungWomen #3february #frenchResistance #womenInWar
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In 1956, a bank robber named William Leibscher made his first hold-up in an eighteen month long spree of robberies, using a toy gun.
10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 3 February: