Her fiancé, Jacques Delaunay, a student she had met at Poitiers, who was actively engaged in the French resistance, was shot on the 6th of October 1943 at the fortress of Mont-Valérian, at Suresnes. In November 1943, Marthe Cohn finished her studies, which she had begun in October 1941 in Poitiers, at the nursing school of the French Red Cross, in Marseille.
Her fiancé, Jacques Delaunay, a student they met at Poitiers who was involved in the French resistance, was killed on October 6th, 1943, at the fortress of Mont-Valérian, near Suresnes. In November 1943, Marthe Cohn finished her nursing studies, which she had begun in October 1941 at the French Red Cross school in Marseille.