Home Office: Aliens Department: Aliens Personal Files

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Home Office: Aliens Department: Aliens Personal Files

1895-2007

This series contains a selection of files of the Aliens Department relating to individual aliens who entered the United Kingdom after 1935. Many pieces contain small photographs of the subjects of the files.

794 file(s)

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11676198

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Granville, Christine, 1908-1952

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Christine Granville, was born Krystyna Skarbek on her parents' estate at Mlodziesyn, thirty miles from Warsaw. In 1938 she married Jerzy Gizycki. Shortly after their marriage, he was sent to Ethiopia as the Polish Consul, and the couple were in Addis Ababa when Hitler invaded Poland. They made their way back to London but the pair separated. Krystyna made three undercover visits to Warsaw, collecting military and economic information which was sent to London. On her return from the third visit, ...