Hello friends, welcome to episode 10 in her documentary series How Women One World War Two.

And just a little content warning this episode has some discussions of Nazi violence that

may be difficult to hear.

It may not be appropriate for young children.

In 1942, Britain, a mother and her three young daughters approached an unassuming

convent in the English countryside.

The little girls were apprehensive but excited.

Their mother had meticulously talked up the time they would be spending at this new, fun

school.

The mother, however, was heavy-hearted.

And reluctantly left her daughters at the school, along with a box of letters to each

of them celebrating their upcoming birthdays and holidays.

She also included a letter to be opened in the event of her death.

I'm Sharon McMahon, and here's where it gets interesting.

The mother who felt she had no choice but to leave her daughters in the care of nuns,

her name was Odette Sansum, code name, lease.

And she became World War II's most decorated spy.

Odette's life was difficult from the very beginning.

She was born in 1912 in a quiet French village outside of Paris.

Her father was killed in World War I, leaving behind Odette and her brother to be raised

by their mother and paternal grandparents.

When Odette was seven years old, as to few months after her father was killed trying to

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