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Ontsnappingslijn - Ligne d' évasion - Escapeline
Comète
Gebied : België + Contacten in Nederland - Ontsnappingsroute door Frankrijk tot in Spanje - Door Comète werden 706 piloten en 64 sluikreizigers overgebracht. De lijn Tourcoing - Roubaix werd geinfiltreerd door het duo De Zitter en Giralt en Jacques Desoubrie welke veel schade aan het net hebben berokkend .
Werkte : Van 1941 tot aan de bevrijding
Aantal leden : +/- 2.000 - Meer dan 800 leden werden aangehouden : 216 van hen overleefden de oorlog niet.
Links :
Namen van overgebrachte piloten
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| Gravin Andrée De Jongh | Arnold Deppé | Jean- François Nothomb | Graaf Antoine d'Ursel | Yvon Michiels | Elvire Berlemont |
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| Lambert Spanoghe | Jean Mobers | Gertrude Moors | Baron Jean Greindl | Ghislain Neybergh | Florentino Goïcoechea |
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| Michael Cresswel | Lucien Boussa | François Toussaint | Ridder Eric de Menten de Horne | Gérard Waucquez | Peggy Van Lier |
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| Georges d'Oultremont | Henri Michelli | Baron Jacques Donny |
Het Laatste Nieuws
Woensdag 29 Maart 1944
Wegens verberging van vijandelijke vliegers ter dood veroordeeld
De militaire overheid verzoekt ons het volgende mede te delen
:
De Belgische onderdaan baron Jacques Donny is door den
krijgsraad wegens hulp aan den vijand ter dood veroordeeld. Het
vonnis werd met den kogel voltrokken. Den veroordeelden had
neergeschooten vijandelijke vliegers onttrokken aan de
opsporingen van de Duitsche overheid, had ze bij kennissen
verborgen gehouden en ze verder bij hun vlucht geholpen. In dit
verband moet er steeds op gewezen worden, dat de krijgsraden in
alle gevallen van steunverlening de door de wet vastgestelde
straffen, ook in de toekomst, met onverbiddelijke strengheid
zullen toepassen.
Overgebrachte piloten door het net Comète : Jim Cromar ( Schot ) , Albert Daye ( Canadees ) , Tom Cox ( Engelsman , Jack Hutton ( Engelsman ) Leonard Warbutton ( Engelsman ) .......
Bronnen :
( Geheime Oorlog 40/45 - Fernand Strubbe )
( Comète - Histoire d'une ligne d'évasion - Cécile Jouan )
Reactie van John Clinch ( www.belgiumww2.info )
Patrick
On your Comete EscapeLine Page of your website you list the
following
names:-
Urbain Ruscart : aangehouden op 28 januari 1942
Antoinette Véronique Bury : aangehouden op 2 november 1941
Greta Julia Thiry : aangehouden op 3 november 1941 - vrijgelaten
op 18
december 1941 en terug aangehouden op 12 januari 1942
Elise de Lombaert : aangehouden op 5 november 1941
Clara Strens : aangehouden op 5 november 1941
Doctor Jacques Pens : aangehouden op 3 december 1941
Emile Toussaint : aangehouden op 12 december 1941
Doctor Paul Janssens : aangehouden op 12 januari 1942
On my website I list these people as they were arrested with my
grandmother
Marcelline Deloge.
I also know what happened to some of them.
Antoinette Veronique BURY who despite being acquitted died at
Ravensbruck
prisoner no. 25101 on 17/12/1943 aged 56 years.
Emile Louis TOUSSAINT the artist and adventurer who was in
Finland in 1940
during the Russo-Finnish war, a copy of a letter in the files
confirmed his
death whilst in detention. Emile was the son of Henri Joseph
TOUSSAINT and
Bertha Maria Elisa DOHLEN of the Rue Royale 104 in Brussels. He
died in
Sonnenburg (Germany) most likely at the beginning of June 1944.
He was an
American citizen but after the war was posthumously awarded the
Croix de
Chevalier de l'Ordre de Léopold II with palm and Croix de Guerre
with palm
and Resistance Medal.
Dr Paul George Marie JANSSENS In the letter (see previous
chapter) written
in July 1945 to Alfred Jones from a friend (Edgard PERBEL editor
of "La
Libre Belgique) in Brussels he is said to have died in captivity.
Dr Jacques PENS in the same letter Dr Pens is also shown as
having died in
captivity.
And what happened to those on trial with them.
Alice Marie De WERGIFOSSE known as Marie-Alix de Wergifosse who
was
acquitted by the Essen court but immediately re-imprisoned she
died in
Ravensbruck concentration camp prisoner no.25126 on the 22/2/1944
or
31/3/1944.
Francois (Frans) STRENS aged 44. The funeral director whose wife
and son had
gone to England before the war started. Died in Sonnenburg prison
in March
or April 1944. After the war Francois Strens was posthumously
awarded the
Croix de Chevalier de l'Ordre de Léopold II with palm and Croix
de Guerre
1940 with palm.
Jean-Francois VANDENHOVE The man who hid probably about fifty
soldiers and
airmen in his Brussels tobacconist shop from 1940 until his
arrest in
October 1941. After the Essen trial Vandenhove was badly treated,
cruelly
tortured so that he had to be carried by his fellow prisoners and
only
survived until the 4th August 1943.
Florence DUCHENE was taken to Ravensbruck after the Essen court
case in
1943, she died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945
at the age
of 38.
My grandmother Marceline DELOGE died in Auschwitz-Birkenau at the
end of
1944 age 67.
And what happened to some others associated with the early days
of the
escape line.
Baron Jacques DONNY ( who was the main financier of the evasion
line) was
arrested by the Germans in 1943. He was executed by firing squad
at
Degerloch near Stuttgart on Tuesday 29th February 1944 age 59.
Georges GUILLON,the director of a carpet company who was involved
in Beaver
Baton died in Mauthausen on the 22 April 1945 age 54 years.
Professor Jean-Marie Eugene DERSCHEID was taken to Germany on the
29th
January 1942. Imprisoned in Aachen, Essen, Bochum,
Esterwegen-Papenburg from
March to October 1943. In Brandenburg November 1943, and then in
Berlin in
January 1944 where he was condemmed to death and then back to
Brandenburg in
mid-March 1944. A Japanese colleague in the scientific world,
ornithologist
Hatchi-Suka had used his influence with Emperor Hirohito to
persuade the
Germans to spare Derschied but Himmler had ordered the execution
of
political prisoners. He was executed in Brandenburg by beheading
on the 13th
March 1944.
You may wish to add them to your superb website.
Regards
John Clinch
www.belgiumww2.info
