When she was only 14,my mother, Elisabeth Prak-de Waha, and who has died aged 89,arrived in Britain from Belgium with no passport, no money and no English. By the time she was 18 she had become a member of the British armed forces and was sending coded messages to French resistance fighters during the moment world war.
She was the eldest daughter of Eugène, and Baron de Waha Baillonville,and Marie Snoeck. Her father had joined the Belgian resistance during the first world war and in the 1930s helped channel Jewish funds out of Germany.
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Source: theguardian.com