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    freedom. Andrée de Jongh to downed airmen. Our lives are going to depend on a schoolgirl. A downed airman referring to de Jongh. Countess Andrée Eugénie...
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  • occupation there. The book was inspired by accounts of a Belgian woman, Andrée de Jongh, who helped downed Allied pilots escape Nazi territory. The Nightingale...
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  • Jongh", "de Iongh" or "de Jonghe" are: Adri de Jongh (born 1970), South African sprinter Aimée de Jongh (born 1988), Dutch cartoonist Andrée de Jongh...
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    camp. Prisoners sent to these camps included Andrée de Jongh; Elsie Maréchal (Belgian Resistance); Andrée Dumon, sister of Michelle Dumon; and Virginia...
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    of the Comet Line, except for founder Andrée de Jongh. Born Elvire Ghislaine Berlemont, she married Fernand De Greef (born November 11, 1902) in 1922...
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  • the 1930s Andrée de Jongh (1916–2007), Belgian resistance leader in World War II Andrée van Es (born 1953), Dutch politician Andrée Esposito (born 1934)...
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  • nickname which may refer to: Andrée de Jongh (1916–2007), member of the World War II Belgian Resistance, nicknamed "Dédée" DeDee Nathan (born 1968), American...
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    leader, Andrée de Jongh, 24 years old, to downed airmen Our lives are going to depend on a schoolgirl. A downed airman, referring to Andrée de Jongh If an...
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    Delestraint (French Resistance) Andrée de Jongh ("Dédée") (Belgian Resistance) Noor Inayat Khan Mary Lindell (Comtesse de Milleville) Henriette Bie Lorentzen...
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  • Maréchal family lived near the family of Andrée de Jongh in Brussels and they began to collaborate with de Jongh (code named "Dédée), the founder of what...
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  • France where he resided for the rest of his life. In 1941, Belgians Andrée de Jongh and Arnold Deppé created what became known as the Comet Line to help...
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  • Nazi-occupied Europe with the help of the Belgian escape-line Comète with Andrée De Jongh. MacLean returned to Prince Edward Island after the war, and ran for...
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    Belgian nurse executed by the German army for spying for Britain in 1916 Andrée de Jongh, a Belgian nurse who, inspired by Cavell, in the Second World War created...
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    avant-garde dramatist, employed at the Municipal Hall from 1923 to 1946 Andrée de Jongh (1916–2007), member of the Resistance during World War II Paul Deschanel...
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    late February and early March 1959, Greene met several times with Andrée de Jongh, a leader in the Belgian resistance during WWII, who famously established...
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    Marie-Louise Dissard (category Female recipients of the Croix de Guerre (France))
    France, another prominent woman leader being Marie-Madeleine Fourcade. Andrée de Jongh, head of the Comet Line which operated in France, was Belgian. Marie-Louise...
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  • the Nazis out of France. In August 1941, a young Belgian woman named Andrée de Jongh appeared unannounced at the British consulate in Bilbao with a British...
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    England. The best-known of these networks, the Comet Line, organized by Andrée de Jongh, involved some 2,000 resistance members and was able to escort 700...
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    citizens did receive them (e.g. Micheline "Michou" Dumon, Nancy Wake and Andrée de Jongh), and the devices have been interpreted as signifying degrees of the...
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  • Line. MI9 became aware of Comet in September 1941 when a young woman, Andrée de Jongh, appeared unknown and unannounced at the British Consulate in Bilbao...
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  • singer (d. 2018) Fran Ryan, American actress (d. 2000) November 30 Andrée de Jongh, Belgian Resistance worker (d. 2007) John C. Harkness, American architect...
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  • imprisonment by Nazi Germany. As a member of the Comet Line, founded by Andrée de Jongh, she aided in the escape of more than 250 allied airmen. She guided...
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    Jacques Desoubrie (category Nazi collaborators shot at the Fort de Montrouge)
    January 1943, the Comet Line's founder, Andrée de Jongh was captured by the Germans. Andrée's father, Frederic de Jongh, who had fled Brussels to Paris, was...
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  • a small village nearby. In 1941, De Greef's parents set up the southern part of the Comet Line with Andrée de Jongh, creating escape routes over the Pyrenees...
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    Saint-Gilles Prison (French: Prison de Saint-Gilles, Dutch: Gevangenis van Sint-Gillis) is a prison in Brussels, Belgium, that opened in 1884. It is located...
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  • Koning en vaderland. De Belgische adel in het verzet" (Tielt, 2003) Marie-Pierre d'Udekem d'Acoz, "Andrée De Jongh. Une vie de résistante" (Bruxelles...
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    1943 to January 1944, he followed the grassroots organizations of Andrée De Jongh, the co-founder of the network. With the assistance of the message...
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  • fascist Nazi Germany and Italy. In August 1941, a young Belgian woman, Andrée de Jongh, appeared in the British consulate in Bilbao along with a British soldier...
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    Gazette (Supplement). 24 April 1942. p. 1849. "The Pat O'Leary Network". Musée de la Résistance en Ligne. 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2015. Long, Christopher...
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  • second wife of King Leopold III of Belgium (died 2002) 30 November – Andrée de Jongh, patriot (died 2007) 30 December – Robert-Joseph Mathen, bishop (died...
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