6. The book I mentioned in the OP said that she was probably partly deaf from birth...
She had an operation or two to try and correct it but nothing worked. It also said that she could hear some things. But primarily she taught herself to lip-read in those four languages and that is how she got through life...lip-reading! There is also an anectdote in the book about her time in Greece during World War II that relates to her deafness. After telling the top German general that the only thing he could do for her was get his troops out of Greece, she was brought in front of the Gestapo numerous times for questioning. She often pretended to be more deaf (and, in effect, dumb) than she really was and the Gestapo stopped questioning her because they couldn't get anything out of her.
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