NOOR INAYAT KHAN

Noor Inayat Khan was the first woman to work as a wireless operator in Occupied Paris, where she was ultimately betrayed to the Gestapo under the alias “Madelaine.” Our Noor pages include:

BIOGRAPHY

A beautiful, exotic, gentle young woman, Noor Inayat Khan was born in the Kremlin in 1914, in the days when it was still the palace of the Russian Tsar. Her father Hazrat was a philosopher and the most famous Indian musician of his day... Load Bio »

HEROISM

Two full–page stats of the London Sunday Express article of 5 June 1949 chronicling the daring heroics of Noor Inayat Khan and fellow Resistance fighter, Violette Szabo. Read »

MORE REAL CHARLOTTES

Learn about other Real Charlottes, who, like Noor Inayat Khan, were the courageous heroines of the S.O.E. “F” Section. »