| 词条 | Fernande Keufgens |
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Fernande Keufgens (also known as Fernande Davis) was a Belgian resistance fighter with the {{ill|Army of Liberation (Belgium)|lt=Army of Liberation|fr|Armée de la Libération (Belgique)|nl|Bevrijdingsleger (België)}} during the Second World War. Early lifeFernande Keufgens was one of eight children in a close-knit family; she was sixteen years old when the Germans invaded Belgium.[1] Before World War II began, Keufgens's father—who witnessed the horror of World War I—foresaw the Nazi invasion and the subsequent draft into munitions factories.[1][2] Her father then arranged for her to move further from the German border to Verviers. Two years after the German invasion, however, Keufgens was summoned back to her home; she was ordered to report to a German munitions factory. Keufgens refused, however, to serve the Nazi army; she boarded the train to the factory, and jumped off before it arrived at the work camp to join the Belgian Resistance.[3][1] World War IIAfter jumping off the train, Keufgens walked to her uncle's home. He was working with the Army of Liberation at the time.[3] Despite initially protesting, Keufgens's uncle agreed to her resistance work, giving her a false ID card and counterfeit food stamps. Keufgens became a courier for the Army of Liberation.[3] Keufgens had numerous run-ins with the Nazis throughout the war. On one such instance, Keufgens was escorting a young boy to a tuberculosis hospital while also transporting ID cards to take to the nuns at the hospital.[4] During confrontations with the police, Keufgens's fluency in German often caused the officers to mistake her for a German.[5] Despite numerous run-ins and working with the Resistance until the end of the war, Keufgens thankfully survived the war.[5] Later lifeAbout her Resistance work, Keufgens says "I was determined...I was determined to do nothing to help (the Germans) take over the country...you did it once to my father [referencing her father's experience in WWI], you're not going to do it to me."[6] After the war, she married an American soldier, Bill Davis. The two moved to the United States, where Keufgens became a university professor in French.[5] In 2008, Keufgens wrote her memoir called Girl in the Belgian Resistance.[7] She continues to lecture about her wartime resistance work.[5] References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.hamec.org/node/751|title=Fernande Keufgens Davis - Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center|publisher=}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Keufgens, Fernande}}2. ^{{cite book|last=Atwood|first=Kathryn J.|title=Women Heroes of World War II|location=Chicago|publisher=Chicago Review Press|date=2011 |isbn=9781556529610 |page=143}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite book|last=Atwood|first=Kathryn J.|title=Women Heroes of World War II|location=Chicago|publisher=Chicago Review Press|date=2011|isbn=9781556529610|page=144}} 4. ^{{cite book|last=Atwood|first=Kathryn J.|title=Women Heroes of World War II|location=Chicago|publisher=Chicago Review Press|date=2011|isbn=9781556529610|page=141}} 5. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|last=Atwood|first=Kathryn J.|title=Women Heroes of World War II|location=Chicago|publisher=Chicago Review Press|date=2011|isbn=9781556529610|page=145}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thereporteronline.com/article/RO/20080617/TMP01/306179973|title=Lower Gwynedd resident pens WWII memoir|publisher=}} 7. ^Davis, Fernande. Girl in the Belgian Resistance: A Wakeful Eye in the Underground. Wayne, PA: Beach Lloyd Publishers, 2008. {{ISBN|9780979277894}} 3 : Belgian academics|Belgian resistance members|Women in World War II |
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