Isidore Newman

Isidore Newman MBE CdeG MdeR (26 January 1916 – 7 September 1944) was a British secret agent in the French section of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War.

[1][2] They travelled in HM Submarine P 42 “Unbroken” to Antibes where on the night of 21 April 1942 Churchill took Newman and Zeff and their radios to the shore by canoe, and led them to their contact Dr Élie Lévy.

SALESMAN needed a reliable radio link with London to begin coordinating supply drops and made effective use of the arms it then received, sinking an 800-ton minesweeper in September, and wrecking a local power station the following month.

[1] Captain Isidore Newman, MBE Jewish Secret Agent of WW2 Special Operations Executive (SOE) Lived at 52/53 Hawthorn Terrace.

He was betrayed in France and murdered in Mauthausen concentration camp in 1944 Be Strong and of Good Courage, Joshua 1:9 Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation U.K.

SOE agent Isidore Newman
Monument commemorating the landing of Capt. Peter Churchill from HMS Unbroken at Cap d'Antibes on 21 April 1942
Capt. Isidore Newman, British Secret Agent, SOE, MI6 during WW2