Claude Cahun was a writer, photographer, artist, journalist, actress, who was connected with the surrealist group in the interwar period. Living in Jersey with her girlfriend during World War II, she took part in special resistance activities. Isolated from any political group, she had decided to react to the occupation of the island by Nazi Germany with her own artistic propaganda.
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