Andree de Jongh (born 1916) was a member of Belgian Resistance who organized a Comet Line for escaped Allied soldiers during the World War II. When spelt with a capital A, Allies usually denotes the countries that fought together against the Central Powers in World War I and against the Axis powers in World War II. Other uses In general, allies are people or groups that have joined an alliance and are working together to... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

Andree de Jongh was born 1916 in Schaerbeek, Belgium to a family of headmaster Frederich de Jongh. She trained as a nurse but was working as a commercial artist when the German troops invaded Belgium in 1940. Schaerbeek within the Brussels-Capital Region Schaerbeek (French) or Schaarbeek (Dutch) is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. ...

De Jongh moved to Brussels and established an escape network called the Comet Line for captured Allied soldiers with the help of her father. In August 1941 she appeared in a British consulate in Bilbao with ah British soldier and two Belgia volunteers and requested support for her escape network. Request was Granted and Comet Line begun. Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, French: Bruxelles, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium and is considered by many to be the de facto capital of the European Union, as two of its three main institutions have their headquarters...

Comet line went from Brussels to Pyrenees through France and there to British consulate in Madrid and to Gibraltar. They helped maybe 400 Allied soldiers and Andree accompanied 118 of them herself. Central Pyrenees The Pyrenees (French: Pyrénées; Spanish: Pirineos; Occitan: Pirenèus or Pirenèas; Catalan Pirineus; Aragonese: Perinés; Basque: Pirinioak) are a range of mountains in southwest Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain. ... Coat of arms The Plaza de España square Madrid, the capital of Spain, is located in the center of the country at 40°25′ N 3°45′ W. Population of the city of Madrid proper was 3,093,000 (Madrilenes, madrileños) as of 2003 estimates. ...

Gestapo captured Frederich de Jongh in June 1943 in Gare du Nord and later executed him. Many other members of the Comet Line were also captured and 23 executed. Andree was captured in January 1944. Unwilling to believe she could have organized the network herself, Gestapo let her live. She was sent first to Fresnes prison in Paris and eventually to Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was released by advancing Allied troops in April 1945. Main entrance to the Gare du Nord Gare du Nord is one of the six large terminus stations of the SNCFs main line network in Paris. ... Fresnes Prison (Maison darrêt de Fresnes) is the largest prison in France, located in the town of Fresnes, Val-de-Marne near the city of Paris. ... View of the barracks at Ravensbrück Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp located 90 km north of Berlin. ...

Andree de Jongh was awarded American Medal of Freedom. After the war she moved first to Belgian Congo and then to Ethiopia to work in a leper hospital in Addis Abeba. Later she was made a Belgian Countess. As of this writing, she is retired and lives in Brussels. On November 15, 1908, King Leopold II of Belgium formally relinquished personal control of the Congo Free State and the renamed Belgian Congo came under the administration of the Belgian parliament, a system which lasted until independence was granted in 1960. ... Father Damien was a Roman Catholic missionary who helped lepers on Hawaii and also died of the disease. ... Addis Ababa (Amharic new flower) is the capital of Ethiopia. ...