Edith Bonnesen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edith Bonnesen

Danish resistance member in World War II

Date of Birth: 28-Sep-1911

Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Date of Death: 20-Feb-1992

Profession: resistance fighter, attorney-in-fact

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Edith Bonnesen née Andersen (1911–1992) was a Danish civil servant who, under the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, became a member of the Danish resistance.
She contributed to the illegal newspaper De frie Danske, worked for the Danish-Swedish Refugee Service and joined the British Special Operations Executive (SOE).
Arrested but released on several occasions, she made a dramatic escape from Copenhagen's Gestapo headquarters in August 1944.