PURPOSE OF AFEES
The purpose of the AFEES is to encourage airmen aided by resistance organizations or patriotic nationals of foreign countries to continue friendships with those who helped them. Further, the objectives of this society are to commemorate, remember and honor all those who were involved in escaping and evading, both the escapers and their helpers, and to get people together who feel the same way so that we may perpetuate the principles the original members stood for. It should not be necessary for the original members to be alive, but that their descendants and anyone who is or has been associated with them in some way and able to continue the tradition may be part of the organization..

Helper members are people who either directly aided the airmen or are family members of helpers. Thousands of brave, ordinary people in the Occupied countries took extraordinary risks at huge cost to help these airmen.

"Our organization perpetuates the close bond that exists between airmen forced down and the resistance people who made our evasion possible at great risk to themselves and their families," says Larry Grauerholz, AFEES President and editor of the quarterly AFEES Communications newsletter and journal.

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 SPECIAL REQUEST:
VRT, the public TV- and radio channel of the Flemish community in Belgium is producing a new TV-program "Publiek Geheim". One of the episodes tells the story of the escape line for Allied pilots between Holland and Belgium in WW2.

They are looking for a witness to tell more about the experience of escaping through the caves of the Saint Pieters Mountain. Can you help them find a pilot that used this escape line?  If you have information please contact Jan Bruyndonckx by email: Jan.BRUYNDONCKX@VRT.BE

Shooting for this episode will take place in December 2009.