Henri Edmond Fiocca

Henri was arrested, and brutally tortured. To compound matters, the Gestapo approached Henri’s parents to say he was being tortured because he refused to divulge Nancy’s location. If someone gave up where the White Mouse was hiding, Henri would be released. It’s unlikely he would ever have been released, and Nancy was safely in Gibraltar by then. The Fioccas’ blamed Nancy for Henri’s death. Henri’s torture continued until October 1943, when he was finally lined up against a wall and shot. Heartbroken, and with nothing to stay for, the widow Fiocca set off for London. Source: https://historyandimagination.com/tag/henri-fiocca.

In 1939 Nancy married a handsome wealthy French industrialist, Henri Fiocca, in Marseilles (apparently seduced by his proficiency in tango). “He was the love of my life.” Together they had a charmed and sophisticated life of travel, dinner parties, champagne and caviar, residing in a luxury apartment on a hill overlooking Marseilles and its harbour. A year after Nancy had left France in 1943, the Germans had captured Henri, tortured and executed him, because he refused to give them any information about the whereabouts of his wife. Source: http://www.nzedge.com/legends/warriors/nancy-wake.

1911 France Census

Head Pascal FIOCCA 1874
Wife Madeleine FIOCCA 1879
Son Henri FIOCCA 1899
Daughter Madeleine FIOCCA 1901
Daughter Antoinette FIOCCA 1903
Domestic Servant Amma JOURDAN 1891