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On the sign:
[Star of David]
Capt Isidore Newman, MBE Jewish secret agent of WW2 Special Operations Executive (SOE) lived at 52/53 Hawthorn Terrace. He was betrayed in France and murdered in Mauthausen concentration camp in 1944 Be strong and of good courage (Joshua 1:9)
הלוא צויתיך חזק ואמץ
Jewish Amercian Society for Historic Preservation UK Branch and AJEX UK
The sign is on the wall of the house where Captain Isidore Newman lived, a Jew who was a British secret agent in the Special Operations Executive, a body that operated in the countries occupied by the Nazis. Newman, who was operating in France, was caught after the person in charge of the spy ring was caught and turned Newman in. He was sent to the Gestapo prison in Paris, and then to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was executed on September 7, 1944. Newman received the Order of the British Empire, the French War Cross and the French Resistance Medal.
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