Editing Marcel Moore (section)

==Activism==
In 1937 Moore and Cahun moved from Paris to [[Jersey]], possibly to escape the increasing [[anti-Semitism]] and political upheavals leading up to World War II. They remained on the island of Jersey when German troops invaded in 1940. For several years, the two risked their lives by distributing anti-Nazi propaganda to the German soldiers.<ref name="Nazi">{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Katherine|title=Claude Cahun as Anti-Nazi Resistance Fighter|url=http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/exhibits/odysseys/Nazi/body_nazi.html|website=NYU.edu|access-date=20 March 2015}}</ref> Moore was fluent in German, and was able to translate the secret notes and messages that she and Cahun composed into German, in hopes of fooling the occupation troops into believing that there was a conspiracy on the island.  She was often the one to take the most significant risks, slipping her notes into pockets of German soldiers or leaving them in German staff cars.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jackson|first=Jeffrey|title=Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis|publisher=Algonquin Books|year=2020|isbn=978-1616209162|location=New York|pages=160}}</ref> As historian Jeffrey H. Jackson writes in his definitive study of their wartime resistance ''Paper Bullets,'' for Cahun and Moore, "fighting the German occupation of Jersey was the culmination of lifelong patterns of resistance, which had always borne a political edge in the cause of freedom as they carved out their own rebellious way of living in the world together.  For them, the political was always deeply personal."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jackson|first=Jeffrey|title=Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis|publisher=Algonquin Books|year=2020|isbn=978-1616209162|location=New York|pages=267–68}}</ref> Despite having reverted to their original names and introducing themselves as sisters in Jersey, their resistance activities were discovered in 1944, and they were sentenced to death and imprisoned.  They were saved by the Liberation of Jersey in 1945, but their home and property had been confiscated and much of their art destroyed by the Germans.