Madeline Woods

Madeline Woods (born 1923, Dortmund) was a Brunanter resistance fighter with the Underground Revolution.

Biography
Woods grew up in Dortmund and lived with her parents until 1942, when they were killed by an SS officer. Woods joined the UR in 1942 and came to work with the "Underground Railroad" (based on the Civil War one) where Brunanter and Allied sailors and airmen were secretly smuggled out of the country and sent to Egypt or Gibraltar. She was in charge of creating false identity papers for soldiers and helping POWs escape, most notably from Grijzestad Prison in April 1942 (35 British and Brunanter airmen were freed). In 1943 she was sent to work within the Gestapo, stealing information to rescue Jews scheduled for transport and even killing a Gestapo officer. She later went into hiding in a Chester Valley winery along with 4 other resistance fighters. As the Nazis began searching the region the four were smuggled out in the back of a truck and made it by boat to Sardinia in November 1943. Woods returned to Brunant in 1947 and was awarded the Resistance Cross.