Taking her by the arm, “like lovers” he recalled, “we ask for a room”. He wrote in his memoir that after working with Khan for some weeks she was so exhausted that she could barely sit up when they went to a cafe. Working for an electronics company, he risked his life by stealing German seals to authenticate fake papers and used a double-bottomed briefcase to hide blueprints for equipment the Nazis were using to jam radio signals. Viénot’s resistance codename was “Louis Deux”. They had an idea of what she looked like physically, but blue was the radar that they picked up on.” That was a key factor that helped give her away. They take her to a hair salon and get her a whole new wardrobe – except that everything she’s chosen is blue, just like before, and the Gestapo knows that Noor’s really fond of blue. I learned from it that, in the autumn of 1943, with the Gestapo closing in on her, they do everything they can to save her. Arthur Magida told the Guardian that he acquired an account by Pierre Viénot, a fellow resistance fighter, written as a private memoir for his family: “It’s never been used or published.
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