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Countess Andrée Eugénie Adrienne de Jongh (30 November 1916 – 13 October 2007), called Dédée and Postman, was a member of the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War. She organised and led the Comet Line (Le Réseau Comète) to assist Allied soldiers and airmen to escape from Nazi-occupied Belgium. The airmen were survivors of ...
Dec 30, 2007 · When the war started, Dédée de Jongh quit her job as a commercial artist and moved into her parents’ house in Brussels. Volunteering with the Belgian Red Cross, she began nursing wounded Allied...
Nov 19, 2023 · Remarkable Belgian Andrée de Jongh played a pivotal role in organizing the Comet Line – a clandestine network that defied the Nazi occupation and rescued numerous Allied soldiers and airmen stranded behind enemy lines. Early life.
May 26, 2020 · Andrée De Jongh was a Belgian Resistance worker, codenamed Dedee. She escorted 118 people, to safety, and was recognised as a hero.
Dec 8, 2014 · The daughter of a Belgian schoolmaster, Andrée de Jongh greatly admired Edith Cavell—a Red Cross nurse who was killed by the Germans during World War I for helping British soldiers escape—and was determined to emulate her heroic example.
Oct 22, 2007 · Andree de Jongh, a Belgian resistance fighter who established the most successful escape route in Europe for downed Allied airmen during World War II, died Oct. 13 in Brussels. She was 90. De...
Oct 18, 2007 · Ms. de Jongh became a World War II legend ushering many downed Allied airmen on a treacherous, 1,000-mile path from occupied Belgium to safety.
