At the beginning of World War I, a network of civilians in German occupied Belgium began hiding British and French soldiers and guiding them toward neutral Holland.

But they needed help. Someone they could trust.

Edith Cavell volunteered because that’s who she was.

Her nursing school in Brussels became more than a hospital. Secretly she hid British and French soldiers in her attic, cellar, and spare rooms.

She provided civilian clothing, food, and medicine. She coordinated with the Resistance to guide these escaping soldiers into neutral Holland under cover of darkness.

Of course, it was dangerous work.

The German military threatened to punish those helping escaping enemy soldiers, decreeing that anyone assisting fugitives would be executed as a traitor.

Still Edith continued to help the underground, a responsibility she took most seriously.

Over a year’s time, she helped save more than 200 Allied soldiers to escape to England, to home and freedom.

But each knock on the door she knew could be her last…

I’m Rick Robison and this is the HEROES FOR FREEDOM Podcast.

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