"Mata Hari Margaretha Geertruida ""Margreet"" MacLeod (""née"" Zelle; 7 August 187615 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari (), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I and executed by firing squad in France. Margaretha Zelle was born 7 August 1876, in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. She was the eldest of four children of Adam Zelle (2 October 1840 – 13 March 1910) and his first wife Antje van der Meulen (21 April 1842 – 9 May 1891). She had three brothers. Her father owned a hat"
"while- keep him for themselves: Mata Hari was a famous exotic dancer, who was accused of espionage and then shot by French authorities due to her ties to the German secret services during World War I. Later on, admiral Canaris, German secret service director, told in his autobiography that it was him who betrayed Mata Hari given that her services were not needed anymore. At the time, a rumor that Gómez Carrillo and his wife Raquel Meller were the ones that told the French on Mata Hari -even though at the time Gómez Carrillo had not met Raquel yet-; Gómez"
"1916 a Belgian woman, Gabrielle Petit, was executed by a German firing squad at Schaerbeek after being convicted of spying for the British Secret Service during World War I. During the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, three captured German spies were tried and executed by a U.S. firing squad at Henri-Chapelle on 23 December 1944. Thirteen other Germans were also tried and shot at either Henri-Chapelle or Huy. These executed spies took part in Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny's Operation Greif, in which English-speaking German commandos operated behind U.S. lines, masquerading in U.S. uniforms and equipment. The Brazilian"
"lamps' significance. ""The memorial is an expression of atonement for the injustice that took place here. It will be an eternal light for Anna Göldi."" On August 20, 2017, the Anna Göldi Museum was opened in the Hänggiturm building. The life of Göldi has been the subject of a musical, with Göldi performed by Masha Karell. Anna Göldi Anna Göldi (also Anna Göldin or Anna Goeldin, 24 October 1734 – 13 June 1782) was an 18th-century Swiss woman who was the last person to be executed in Europe for witchcraft. Göldi, who was executed by decapitation, has been called the"
"Mata Hari (TV series) Mata Hari is a 2017 Russian-Portuguese television series, produced by British-Russian-Ukrainian production company Star Media in association with Channel One (Russia) and Inter (Ukraine). The series is dedicated to the story of the legendary spy, fatal temptress and passionate dancer Margareta Zelle, better known under the pseudonym Mata Hari, who was engaged in espionage activities in favor of Germany during the First World War. Margaret MacLeod, persecuted by her ex-husband, is deprived of custody of her daughter and abandoned to the mercy of fate with no means of subsistence. She becomes a dancer and is desperate"
"it seems clear she wasn't the master-spy whose information sent thousands of soldiers to their deaths, as has been claimed"". Zelle was executed by a firing squad of 12 French Soldiers just before dawn on 15 October 1917. She was 41. According to an eyewitness account by British reporter Henry Wales, she was not bound and refused a blindfold. She defiantly blew a kiss to the firing squad. Zelle has often been portrayed as a ""femme fatale"", the dangerous, seductive woman who uses her sexuality to effortlessly manipulate men, but others view her differently: in the words of the American"
"Madame Céleste Madame Céleste or Madame Céline Céleste-Elliott (16 August 1815? Paris – 12 February 1882, Paris) was a French dancer and actress who enjoyed great success on the London stage and during her four tours of America. She was also later involved in theatrical management. On her retirement from the stage she returned to Paris where she died in 1882. As a little girl Céleste showed early talent and was enrolled at the Paris conservatory as a pupil, performing with Francois-Joseph Talma. In 1827 she made her debut at the Bowery theatre, New York, dancing a ""pas seul"" with"
"Freda Stark Freda Beatrice Stark (27 March 1910 – 19 March 1999) was a New Zealand dancer. In 1935 she was a prosecution witness at two trials where Eric Mareo was convicted of the murder of his wife Thelma Mareo who was also Stark's lover. During the Second World War, she was a famed exotic dancer at Auckland's Wintergarden cabaret and nightclub, and a favourite of American troops stationed there, where she earned the title ""Fever of the Fleet."" Born in Kaeo in 1910, Stark was the daughter of James Stark, a shopkeeper, and Isabella Bramley. She attended St Benedict's"
"Eugénie Djendi Eugénie Malika Djendi (1918 – 18 January 1945) was a French heroine of World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive and was executed by the Nazi government. Djendi was born in 1918 and she lived with her parents in Bône, a former French département in Algeria, where in 1942 she joined the ""Corps Féminin des Transmissions"" (Women's Signal Corps) set up by General Lucien Merlin, and known as ""Merlinettes"" after their creator. Other recruits were Marie-Louise Cloarec, Pierrette Louin and Suzanne Mertzizen. All four were sent for training at Staouéli, near Algiers. When a call"
"in both the advancement of women's roles in society and in choreography. Suzanne Douvillier Suzanne Théodore Vaillande Douvillier (28 September 1778 – 30 August 1826) was a French-born ballerina, mime and choreographer. Known as Madame Placide during the early years of her career, she is considered by some historians as the first trained ballerina to dance in the United States. Suzanne Theodore Vaillande was born in Dole, Jura, France, on September 28, 1778. It is believed that her birth was illegitimate; her mother was Marie Reine Vailland (sic) but her father is unknown. Due to a lack of extant records"
"Suzanne Douvillier Suzanne Théodore Vaillande Douvillier (28 September 1778 – 30 August 1826) was a French-born ballerina, mime and choreographer. Known as Madame Placide during the early years of her career, she is considered by some historians as the first trained ballerina to dance in the United States. Suzanne Theodore Vaillande was born in Dole, Jura, France, on September 28, 1778. It is believed that her birth was illegitimate; her mother was Marie Reine Vailland (sic) but her father is unknown. Due to a lack of extant records knowledge of her childhood is almost entirely bereft of even the vaguest"
"Gertrude Lawrence Gertrude Lawrence (4 July 1898 – 6 September 1952) was an English actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End of London and on Broadway in New York. Lawrence was born Gertrude Alice Dagmar Klasen, Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence-Klasen, Gertrude Alexandra Dagmar Klasen or some variant (sources differ), of English and Danish extraction, in Newington, London. Her father was a basso profundo who performed under the name Arthur Lawrence. His heavy drinking led her mother Alice to leave him soon after Gertrude's birth. In 1904, her stepfather took the family to"
"Mata Hari (1985 film) Mata Hari is a 1985 erotic biographical film directed by Curtis Harrington, produced by Golan-Globus and featuring Sylvia Kristel in the title role of exotic dancer Mata Hari, executed for espionage during World War I. The film portrays Mata Hari as an innocent woman manipulated by the secret services of Germany and France into providing intelligence, at first unwittingly and unwillingly, and later driven by the nonpartisan desire to save lives. Eventually she is cynically sacrificed by the French who are aware of her innocence but believe her execution will boost morale. The film's convoluted plot"
"in the picture. Mata Hari (1985 film) Mata Hari is a 1985 erotic biographical film directed by Curtis Harrington, produced by Golan-Globus and featuring Sylvia Kristel in the title role of exotic dancer Mata Hari, executed for espionage during World War I. The film portrays Mata Hari as an innocent woman manipulated by the secret services of Germany and France into providing intelligence, at first unwittingly and unwillingly, and later driven by the nonpartisan desire to save lives. Eventually she is cynically sacrificed by the French who are aware of her innocence but believe her execution will boost morale. The"
"She is interred in the Zinnia Plot (Range 32, Grave 74) at Woodlawn Cemetery. Ada ""Bricktop"" Smith Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop, (August 14, 1894 – February 1, 1984) was an American dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub ""Chez Bricktop"" in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome. She has been called ""...one of the most legendary and enduring figures of twentieth-century American cultural history."" Smith was born in Alderson, West Virginia, the youngest of four children by an Irish father and"
"Madame Zeno Madame Zeno ( – ) was an early Aeronaut, an actor, and an entertainer famous at the turn of the 20th century for her performance of suspending from a trapeze below a parachute attached to Hot Air Balloon and cutting loose from a balloon floating back to earth while hanging from the trapeze beneath the parachute. ""Aka: Mademoiselle, Mme., M'lle, and Madame Alice Zeno"" Lucy Alice Huonker (Americanized Hunger) was born 25 June 1869 in Blairsville, Pennsylvania. Lucy was the only child born to Martian A Huonker of Germany and Lucy Curry of Pennsylvania. Her parents did not"
"La Sylphe Edith Lambelle Langerfeld, mostly known as La Sylphe, was an exotic American dancer who became a sensation while performing at the Folies Bergère in the 1890s. Edith Lambelle Langerfeld was born on July 3, 1883 in New York City, the daughter of Arthur (1855-1931) and Margaret Douglas Langerfeld. Her father was German, born at Elberfeld in Nordrhein-Westfalen, now a part of Wuppertal, while her mother came from Loughgall, a small town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The Library of Congress has in their collection a photograph of Arthur Langerfeld with one of the machines he invented for use"
"Franceska Mann Franceska Mann (or Franciszka Mann in Polish, a.k.a. Rosenberg-Manheimer, also: Franciszka Mannówna, or Man; February 4, 1917 – October 23, 1943) was a Polish-Jewish dancer mentioned by Jewish Holocaust survivors in the context of her actions in the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland. Along with a group of new arrivals, Mann was meant to be taken to the gas chamber for immediate death. During the incident, which was either at the selection ramp, a work area or at the gas chamber, depending on the telling, she managed to shoot and fatally wound roll call"
"length by Sir Basil Thomson, Assistant Commissioner at New Scotland Yard. She eventually claimed to be working for French intelligence. In fact, she had entered German service from 1915, and sent her reports to the mission in the German embassy in Madrid. In January 1917, the German military attaché in Madrid transmitted radio messages to Berlin describing the helpful activities of a German spy code-named H-21. French intelligence agents intercepted the messages and, from the information it contained, identified H-21 as Mata Hari. She was executed by firing squad on 15 October 1917. German spies in Britain did not meet"
"Maud Allan Maud Allan (27 August 1873 – 7 October 1956) was a pianist-turned-actress, dancer and choreographer who is remembered for her ""impressionistic mood settings"". Allan was born as Beulah Maude Durrant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sources give contradictory dates for her year of birth, ranging from 1873 through 1880. She spent her early years in San Francisco, moving to Germany in 1895 to study piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. She later changed her name, prompted in part by the scandal surrounding the crimes committed by her brother, Theodore Durrant, who was hanged in 1898 for the"
"such as the Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergère were featuring attractive scantily clad women dancing and tableaux vivants. In this environment, an act in the 1890s featured a woman who slowly removed her clothes in a vain search for a flea crawling on her body. ""The People's Almanac"" credits the act as the origin of modern striptease. In 1905, the notorious and tragic Dutch dancer Mata Hari, later shot as a spy by the French authorities during World War I, was an overnight success from the debut of her act at the Musée Guimet. The most celebrated segment of her"
"Suzanne Mertzizen Suzanne Camille Mertzizen or Mertzisen (15 May 1919 – 18 January 1945) was a French heroine of World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive and was executed by the Nazi government. She was born Suzanne Boitte in Colombes, a suburb of Paris. In 1938 she married a French airman, Gabriel Mertzisen and had a daughter. They moved to live in Constantine, Algeria where she joined the ""Corps Féminin des Transmissions"" (Women's Signal Corps) set up by General , and known as ""Merlinettes"" after their creator. With other recruits Eugénie Djendi, Marie-Louise Cloarec and Pierrette Louin,"
"Hawthorne, New York. Anna Held Helene Anna Held (19 March 1872 – 12 August 1918), known professionally as Anna Held, was a Polish-born French and later Broadway stage performer and singer, most often associated with impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, her common-law husband. Born in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, Held was the daughter of a German-Jewish glove maker, Shimmle (aka Maurice) Held, and his French-Jewish wife, Yvonne Pierre. Sources of her year of birth range from 1865–73, but 1872 has been accepted in general. In 1881, antisemitic pogroms forced the family to flee to Paris, France. When her father's glovemaking business"
"Gaby Deslys Gaby Deslys (born Marie-Elise-Gabrielle Caire; 4 November 1881 – 11 February 1920) was a singer and actress of the early 20th century from Marseilles, France. She selected her name for her stage career. It is an abbreviation of ""Gabrielle of the Lillies"". During the 1910s she was exceedingly popular worldwide, making $4,000 a week in the United States alone. During the 1910s she performed several times on Broadway, at the Winter Garden Theater, and performed in a show with a young Al Jolson. Her dancing was so popular that ""The Gaby Glide"" was named for her. Renowned for"
"Ada ""Bricktop"" Smith Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop, (August 14, 1894 – February 1, 1984) was an American dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub ""Chez Bricktop"" in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome. She has been called ""...one of the most legendary and enduring figures of twentieth-century American cultural history."" Smith was born in Alderson, West Virginia, the youngest of four children by an Irish father and a black mother. When her father died, her family relocated to Chicago. It was"
"Anna Held Helene Anna Held (19 March 1872 – 12 August 1918), known professionally as Anna Held, was a Polish-born French and later Broadway stage performer and singer, most often associated with impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, her common-law husband. Born in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, Held was the daughter of a German-Jewish glove maker, Shimmle (aka Maurice) Held, and his French-Jewish wife, Yvonne Pierre. Sources of her year of birth range from 1865–73, but 1872 has been accepted in general. In 1881, antisemitic pogroms forced the family to flee to Paris, France. When her father's glovemaking business failed, he found"
"after returning to England from America, ""she half-killed a baker. Going to France, she killed another man at Bordeaux. At another place she broke her keeper's arm in two places. In Bavaria, she set her shed on fire."" Eventually, D'Jeck was shot to death with a circus cannon (after shooting her with rifles was not successful) in June 1837 in Geneva, reportedly for breaking a priest's ribs. Her meat was sold for eating. Mademoiselle D'Jeck Mademoiselle D'Jeck (died 1837) (also D'Jick, Djeck, D'jek, D'Geck or other varied spellings) was a celebrated elephant who performed in Europe and the United States."
"her. Pierrette Louin Pierrette Denise Louin (1 October 1920 – 18 January 1945) was a French heroine of World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive and was executed by the Nazi government. She was born in Oran, Algeria, where she joined the ""Corps Féminin des Transmissions"" (Women's Signal Corps) set up by General Lucien Merlin, and known as ""Merlinettes"" after their creator. With other recruits Eugénie Djendi, Marie-Louise Cloarec and Suzanne Mertzizen, she was sent for training at Staouéli, near Algiers. When a call went out for radio specialists all four women volunteered and were sent to"
"up with her. Mata Hari, first seeks refuge in Spain then returns to France in the hope of finding him ... Ambushed by the German patrol, François is killed. Mata Hari, betrayed by the Germans themselves, is shot in the ditches of Vincennes. Mata Hari, Agent H21 Mata Hari, Agent H21 (Italian:Mata-Hari, agente segreto H21) is a 1964 French-Italian spy film directed by Jean-Louis Richard and starring Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Claude Rich. It portrays the activities of the First World War spy Mata Hari. In 1914, the beautiful exotic dancer Mata Hari becomes a spy for Germany. By"
"she became part of an espionage network directed from the German Embassy in Madrid, which she visited frequently. French intelligence suspected her because of her travels to Spain. They intercepted messages from the German Embassy in Madrid mentioning an agent H-21. By giving her false military information, the French were able to confirm that Mata Hari was H-21. She was arrested on February 13, 1917, at the Hotel Élysée Palace, then tried and convicted of espionage on July 24. At dawn on October 15, 1917, she was taken to the moat of the Château of Vincennes and executed by a"
"Hannah Szenes Hannah Szenes (often anglicized as Hannah Senesh or Chanah Senesh; ; ; July 17, 1921November 7, 1944) was a poet and Special Operations Executive (SOE) paratrooper. She was one of 37 Jewish parachutists of Mandate Palestine parachuted by the British Army into Yugoslavia during the Second World War to assist in the rescue of Hungarian Jews about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz. Szenes was arrested at the Hungarian border, then imprisoned and tortured, but refused to reveal details of her mission. She was eventually tried and executed by firing squad. She is regarded"
"as well as identifying the outlines of the Indian revolutionary conspiracy. Their efforts at the time also resulted in the capture of Harish Chandra (who was associated with the Berlin committee), and he was successfully turned into a double agent. Thomson's efforts were also key in uncovering the first concrete evidence of Turco-German agents operating in the middle east and attempting to destabillise Afghanistan and British India. One who he interrogated was 'Mata Hari' the Dutch exotic dancer later to be executed by the French as a spy. In 1916 she was taken off a ship sailing from Spain to"
"Elizabeth Stride Elizabeth ""Long Liz"" Stride (née Gustafsdotter; 27 November 1843 – 30 September 1888) is believed to have been a victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer called Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated several women in the Whitechapel area of London from late August to early November 1888. Stride was nicknamed ""Long Liz"". Several explanations have been given for this pseudonym; some believe it came from her married surname ""Stride"" because a stride is a long step, while others believe it was either because of her height, or the shape of her face. At the time of"