Vera Atkins (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vera Atkins, CBE (b. June 16, 1908, Bucharest, Romania - d. June 24, 2000, Hastings, England) was a British Intelligence Officer during World War II.She was born as Vera Maria Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Bucharest, Romania. Her family emigrated to England in 1933, but after a couple of years, they moved to France. She enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study modern languages before attending finishing school at Lausanne. The surname 'Atkins' was her South African-born mother's maiden name, which she adopted as her own. She was a cousin of Rudolf Vrba.