How to Flee the Gestapo

One of the best things about this project so far is the community of people who are actively interested in escape lines.  For instance, the Escape Line Memorial Society (ELMS; […]

As soon as I start to tell a story, I run into the problem of names. The documents usually give the full names of the members of Dutch-Paris, with the […]

I’ve had the distinct pleasure of working in the Dutch national archives, het Nationaal Archief, in The Hague this week. In the first place there’s a thrill to holding an […]

The Dutch-Paris Escape Line ran from the Netherlands through Belgium and France and into both Switzerland and Spain. It rescued approximately one thousand people, about 800 of whom were civilians, […]