Helene Moszkiewiez

Hélène Moszkiewiez (20 December 1920, Nuremberg – 18 June 1998) was a Jewish Belgian woman who went undercover as a secretary at Gestapo headquarters in Brussels during World War II. She was given a new, non-Jewish identity, Olga Richter, and posed as Francois' fiancée. They were imprisoned in the basement of the Gestapo headquarters before being transported to a concentration camp in 1943, where they were likely killed.

In her book, she discussed at length the loneliness of working among the enemy and how she was always afraid that she would be found out and executed. She was constantly hungry and struggled with the inability to trust anyone.

Little is known about Moszkiewiez's later years. She died on 18 June 1998.

Media In 1991, Moszkiewiez's memoir was made into a TV film, A Woman at War, with Martha Plimpton in the lead role. Her story also vaguely inspired Paul Verhoeven for the movie Zwartboek starring Carice Van Houten.