page_title: Elvire de Greef
hierarchical_section_title: Elvire de Greef
context_page_description: Elvire de Greef, code name Tante Go or Auntie Go, was a member of the Comet Escape Line in World War II. From her house in Anglet in southwestern France, near the border with Spain, she led efforts by the Comet Line in the Basque country to exfiltrate people from occupied Belgium through France to Spain, especially Allied airmen whose aircraft had been shot down by Nazi Germany. Once across the border in neutral Spain the escapees were transported to the United Kingdom. Her husband and two teenage children were also involved in the Comet line.
  De Greef was a recipient of the George Medal from the United Kingdom and the Medal of Freedom from the United States.
context_section_description: Elvire de Greef, (b. June 29, 1897, Ixelles, Belgium, d. August 20, 1991, Brussels), code name Tante Go or Auntie Go, was a member of the Comet Escape Line in World War II.  From her house in Anglet in southwestern France, near the border with Spain, she led efforts by the Comet Line in the Basque country to exfiltrate people from occupied Belgium through France to Spain, especially Allied airmen whose aircraft had been shot down by Nazi Germany. Once across the border in neutral Spain the escapees were transported to the United Kingdom. Her husband and two teenage children were also involved in the Comet line.       
  De Greef was a recipient of the George Medal from the United Kingdom and the Medal of Freedom from the United States.
caption: The area in which de Greef operated.
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