
Jean van Geuns

Jean René van Geuns (1924 – 18 February 2021) was a Dutch resistance member during World War II. During the war, Van Geuns smuggled Allied pilots and Jewish families to safe territory in Nijmegen. In Ghent, Belgium, he was involved in three bomb attacks on the SS and Wehrmacht. Three times he tried to travel to England to join the army. On the third attempt (via Sweden) Van Geuns was caught in Norway in 1944 and imprisoned in Falstad prison (Norway). After the war, he emigrated to the United States. He lived in New York where he died on 18 February in a clinic, aged 96.