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She was born in Schaerbeek (now a district of Brussels) under German occupation during the First World War. Her mother, a British nurse, was shot for helping soldiers escape from Belgium to the neutral Netherlands.
Andrée de Jongh became, like her mother, first a nurse and during World War II a heroine rescuing Allied soldiers.
The resistance fighter recalled that after the Germans reoccupied the country, she could not sit back.
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She decided to help Allied soldiers, mainly airmen, return to Britain. The route from Belgium led through France, over the Pyrenees to Spain. The first successful smuggling Andrée de Jongh made in August 1941, at which time she transported a Scottish officer – James Cromar from Aberdeen and two Belgian officers from Brussels to Spanish Bilbao.
Andrée de Jongh organized a whole network of people helping the Allied soldiers.
At first, the British government was distrustful of her, suspecting the young Belgian woman of being a German agent, but the rapid succ