Official Report
British Intelligence
Code: 3986
Kathleen Winfred
June 19, 1944: five days
Freidrich gave me a letter from Jessica. When I had not appeared yesterday, he had somehow been able to sequester her in a side room for a while and give her the opportunity to write a parting note to me.
I was very grateful, and I immediately set to reading it.
Kathleen,
I am, as you already know, to be sent to Ravensbruck. How I wish it were not so, but I suppose there is no other alternative. We are all to be sent away eventually; there is no avoiding it.
I only wish we would have had an opportunity to say goodbye in person.
I will miss you. You were my first true friend here at the prison; you were kind to me even when no one else would be, due to my unfortunate lice incident.
I still remember our first night talking to one another.
I don’t have much time to write, but I wanted to ask you a favor. If I don’t make it out of Ravensbruck, please find my family in London and tell them about what happened to me. Tell them of the happy things I experienced in prison, along with the bad ones. Tell them about Matthew. Their names are James and Elisabeth Parker.
Also, if I do not survive, or ever make it back home, and Matthew does live…Please tell him I loved him. Please tell him I’m sorry.
And if I do live…look me up. We should have tea together sometime. Maybe we’ll both see the end of the war.
Love, Jessica Parker, your friend
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Winfred
Historical FictionThe Women's Guard, The Soldier, The Nazi, The Spy. The Spy turned Prisoner. As they say, dead men (or women, as the case may be) tell no tales. But Kathleen Winfred isn't dead; she managed to escape. Now, the story of her capture by Nazis in occup...
