Andree De Jongh Voice over

Morgan Fenner

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Elearning

Description

I had the opportunity to play a historical figure being interviewed so children can enjoy history. The Dialect is Belgian which is a mix of German and French and I also had to make sure it was understandable for this specific audience

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Young Adult (18-35)

Accents

Belgian French (General) German

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
1943 and we're in brussels Belgium to interview Andrea de Jean, the creator and leader of the comet escape line. Welcome Andrea and thank you for taking the time to talk to us today. Yes alot now you are an integral part of the Belgian resistance. Can you tell our listeners how you got started in that? At the beginning of the war I was training as a nurse, but when Belgium was taken over by the nazis, I started seeing wounded allied soldiers in the hospitals. I knew that as soon as they were well enough they would be transported to a prisoner of war camps for the rest of the war. I was determined to help them back to England so they could continue to fight. So I started gathering others who wanted to help and I set up an escape route and that escape route has become known as the comment line. Is that correct? Yes, it is called that because of how fast we are able to get the man out of occupied territory. Can you tell our listeners a little bit about how the comment line works? We use a number of safe houses along the way, as well as forged documents and fake identities. We have volunteers known as carriers, who will take the men from brussels and paris all the way through the occupied friends and over the Pyrenees mountains into neutral spain. From there they are sent back to England, where they rejoined the army, wow! And most of the men are airmen who have been shot down over occupied countries. Is that right? Yes. Is that right? Whenever there is an air raid, we watch carefully. If we see any parachutes, we get on our bicycles and race to find the man before the Germans do we quickly help him change his clothes and disposed of the parachute. Then we take him to a safe house while we get the papers and things ready for his escape. Now you are one of the couriers, is that right? Yes. I was the first one to take groups into spain. I had to make sure it worked before I involved too many others. What was that first trip like? It was difficult because we were still working out the best way to do things. At one point we were unable to reach our boat because of a nazi guard. So in the middle of the night I had to push each person across the river on an old rubber tire we found in the nearby barn. I spent a long time in the water going back and forth. It took quite a long time to warm up again after that. We always made sure to have a safe location for the boat. And do you do most of the journey on foot