Andrée Dumon

Andrée Dumon (5 September 1922 – 30 January 2025), codenamed Nadine, was a Belgian Resistance fighter during World War II. She was captured and sent to Ravensbrück and Mauthausen concentration camps but survived.

Dumon was born in Belgium and raised in the Belgian Congo, where her father was a doctor. She returned to Belgium to train as a nurse. Aged 17 at the start of World War II, she joined the Comet Line escape network for Allied airmen and others, of which her father and sister were members. Her family was betrayed in August 1942 and her father was killed.

The Comet Line saved the lives of hundreds of airmen and soldiers. Dumon's service in the war resulted in her receiving an honorary Order of the British Empire and the US Medal of Freedom. Her memoirs were published in 2018.