Wichfeld-Muus, Varinka (1922–2002)

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Wichfeld-Muus, Varinka (1922–2002)

Danish resistance worker. Name variations: known as Inkie. Born Feb 9, 1922, in Saxkøbing, Denmark; died Dec 18, 2002, in Copenhagen; dau. of Jorgen de Wichfeld (Danish aristocrat) and Monica Massy-Beresford (1894–1945, Danish heroine); m. Flemming Muus (resistance leader), 1944 (died 1982).

One of the heroines of the Danish resistance, helped her mother with arms pickups, hid wanted persons, ran errands, then became a resistance leader in her own right; married the chief agent in Denmark for Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE).

See also memoirs (in Danish), Fra Solskin til Tusmoerke (From Sunshine to Twilight, 1994).

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