Help From the Comet Line

The Comet Line, which was an escape organization, that was set up by a Belgian girl, early in the war, Dedee Dejongh was her name, she worked in a, she was a nurse’s aid in a hospital in Brussels. And when the Germans invaded Belgium and took over, she spirited, there were three British soldiers, Scottish soldiers in the hospital, in which she worked. Who were, had been wounded or something. And she spirited them out of there and had them hidden in homes. And when they were recovered, she managed to take them all the way to Spain and that was the beginning of the Comet Line, which was financed by the British, which she made contact with the British consulate in Barcelona. So from then on, I was in the care of the Comet Line. And of course I was not told in advance anything that was happening. This was for security reasons. They couldn’t tell me. I just had to have a blind faith in my helpers. They knew what they were doing. That they were to help me. The next day, I was told that, by (inaudible), the next day that there’ll be someone come to get me and take me somewhere else. And the next day this girl appeared and took me across Brussels by street car and gave me a street car ticket that was good for a month. It had been punched several times. So when I was taken, when we were, we had to change street cars in the middle of Brussels and at this point there was a man walking behind us, who had seemed to be following us. Anyway every turn we made he did the same thing. And she turned into a lot beside the bon marché in Brussels. There was washrooms down in the square. She took me down to the washrooms, shoved me into a lady’s washroom stall and said, "I’ll be back in half an hour.", which she was. And then we caught another street car the rest of the way.