Noor-Un-Nisa Inayat Khan: Madeleine, George Cross MBE, Croix De Guerre With Gold Star

Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan was a gentle girl, the great-great-great granddaughter of the Tiger of Mysore, and the daughter of the Sufi teacher Inayat Khan, who founded the Sufi movement and Sufi Order in the West. When war broke out in 1939, she was already achieving her first successes. As a harpist, she had been heard at the Salle Erard. Her stories were appearing on the children's page of 'Le Figaro' and broadcast on Radiodiffusion Francaise, and her 'Twenty Jataka Tales' were published by a London publisher; she was also founding a children's newspaper. Later, she was betrayed to the Sicherheitsdienst and was held at their headquarters on the Avenue Foch. After a daring escape attempt via the roof, she refused to give parole and was sent to Germany, where she was kept in chains before being executed at Dachau. She was posthumously awarded the George Cross and the Croix de Guerre.