AS THE world remembered the millions who died in the holocaust this week, our thoughts also turned to a heroine of our own.

Special Operations Executive field operative Violette Szabo was executed at Ravensbruck concentration camp aged just 23 alongside her colleagues Lillian Rolfe and Denise Bloch in 1945.

The trio had been incarcerated since their capture by the Second SS Panzer Division while on a mission in Limoges in June 1944.

After interrogation by the SS in Paris, the trio were deported to Saarbrucken transit camp in Germany, before being moved on to Ravensbruck and Torgau concentration camps.

They were later returned to Ravensbruck, where they were placed in solitary confinement and later shot, while a fellow SOE agent, Cecily Lefort, was put to death in the gas chambers.

The first week of February marks the 75th anniversary of their deaths, but with poor record keeping at the camp, the exact date is not known.

Born on June 26 1921 to an English father and a French mother, Violette Szabo would spend many childhood holidays with family in Wormelow, Herefordshire before going on to become a wartime heroine.

She was posthumously awarded the George Cross and the Croix-de-Guerre, and is remembered every year on Bastille Day .

Violette’s memory lives on in Herefordshire at the home where she spent those holidays, Cartref.

The cottage on Tump Lane is now home to a museum dedicated to the WW2 heroine, carefully curated by owner Rosemary Rigby.

It is also the venue for the annual celebration of Violette’s life, on Bastille Day - the day she met her future husband, Etienne, in 1940.

This year’s event will be held on July 12, with a parade to leave the park, Wormelow, at 1.30pm, heading towards the Violette Szabo museum, where the main event will take place at 2pm. All are welcome on the day.