ANDREE DUMON, aged 102
A trainee nurse who joined the Comet Line (Belgian Resistance), helping airmen escape. She was captured, tortured and sentenced to die – but didn’t – just.
MADELEINE RIFFAUD, aged 100
A French resistance fighter who was tortured by the Gestapo, she played a key role in the liberation. She later served as a journalist in various war zones.
BOB LE SUEUR, aged 102
An insurance salesman who was active in the resistance in Jersey in the Channel Islands during the war, rescuing Russian slave labourers from the occupiers.
JANINE DE GREEF, aged 95
Along with all of her family she was a key member of the Comet Line, getting Allied airmen out of Belgium at great risk to herself.
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