Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins & the Missing Agents of WWII (41 page)

Vera with her brothers in pony and trap at Crasna, early 1920s. [Atkins Papers]

Vera's father, Max, at the front of the house at Crasna, 1920s. [Atkins Papers]

The rear of the house at Crasna. [Atkins Papers]

Vera in her teens. [Courtesy of K. Rosenberg]

Vera (seated) with her mother, Hilda, Uncle Siegfried, and father, Max, on the rear veranda at Crasna. [Courtesy of K. Rosenberg]

Mountain picnic guests at Vallea Uzului, 1932. Riders (from left): Siegfried Rosenberg (second); Count von der Schulenburg (third); Charles Robinson, commercial attaché (fifth); Vera (sixth); Vera's cousin (one of the Rosenberg twins, Hans or George) (seventh); Fritz Rosenberg (ninth); Annie Samuelli (end). [Atkins Papers]

Vera at Crasna before a ball. [Courtesy of K. Rosenberg]

Targul Mosilor (theatre), Bucharest, mid-1930s. Vera (back row, centre); John Coulson (middle row, far left); Montague Chidson (middle row, second left); Leslie Humphreys (middle row, far right). [Courtesy of Valerie Chidson]

Vera (second left) as Bluebeard, Samedan, near St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1938. [Courtesy of Mimi Rocke]

Vera as WAAF squadron officer, 1946. [Atkins Papers]

Sonia Olschanesky, descriptions of whom led Vera to think she was Nora. [Special Forces Club]

Nora Inayat Khan (alias Madeleine). [Atkins Papers]

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Diana Rowden. [Special Forces Club]