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Catalogue description Mary Alison MISKE-GERSTENBERGER, alias WALTERS, Mary ALLISON, Baroness Mary Alison...
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| Reference: | KV 2/3324 |
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| Description: |
Mary Alison MISKE-GERSTENBERGER, alias WALTERS, Mary ALLISON, Baroness Mary Alison MISKE, 'Miss May': British, German, Hungarian. The British-born wife of a Hungarian Consul, Mary MISKE-GERSTENBERGER was an SOE agent in Hungary in the Second World War. Detected and imprisoned in Hungary, she was exchanged in 1943 for Eugene WIESER who had been interned in Britain. In 1947 she returned to Hungary to settle her husband's estate and disappeared into a Soviet prison camp until 1955, an account of which she and Jerrard TICKELL published in 1958 |
| Date: | 1943 May 14 - 1958 Nov 02 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | PF 115417 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Retained Until 2010 |
| Record opening date: | 26 August 2010 |
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