Vera hirsh biography
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David SCHULMAN
SCHULMAN, David (Alan)
August 2, - May 18,
It is with profound sadness that we mourn the loss of our David at the Montreal General Hospital from COVID complications. Devoted son, husband, father, brother, uncle, cousin, and friend. Born in Quebec City to Clara Ethel Rosenstein and John Schulman, he received a Bachelor of Commerce at Université Laval. In David moved to Montreal after a diplomatic posting in Australia. Constant rock of support to his brother Charles during hospitalization and recovery, David was a dear brother-in-law to Clare and a mentor and champion to his niece and nephew, Alison and John. He is survived by numerous much-loved cousins on both sides. A former board member of Montreal's Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue and longtime member of Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue, where he enjoyed learning with the Adult Study Group. It was at the Shaar that David met the love of his life, Vera Hirsh, with whom he would share thirty-two loving years together, and became an adoptive father to Julia and Denton (Kristi) and grandfather to Callie and Lyla. Together, David and Vera explored many exotic destinations around the globe. A man for all seasons, David's passions included travel, photography, cooking, fine wine, and whiskey. He often bo
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Pain Investigation & Management
Biography
Biography: Vera Hirsh
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I was unaware that women were sent behind enemy lines by the Allied powers as spies and “guerrilla” fighters in WWII. But they were. Thirty-nine out of the agents who were sent to German occupied France by Britain in preparation for the D-Day invasion, were women. All were sent there by a woman named Vera Atkins who worked under Lieut.-Col. Maurice Buckmaster.
In Atkins was recruited by the London office of Britain’s newest secret service: The Special Operations Executive or SOE. “SOE was to develop a secret war: building up, organizing, and arming a resistance army from the peoples of the Nazi-occupied countries” (Helms Loc ). SOE was organized into sections by country. Atkins was recruited for the French section. In A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII, author Sarah Helms writes of Atkins:
“By the end of the war she had become, in the words of a senior colleague, ‘really the most powerful personality in the SOE’.
Vera … coordinated the preparation of more than four hundred secret agents who were to be dropped into France. She had knowledge of every secret mission, shared in the handling of each agent in the field, and had sole responsibility for the personal affairs of every one of her ‘friends,’ as she called the agents. The majority of these