A MEMORIAL is being created in North Yorkshire to Second World War resistance fighters who helped Allied servicemen escape from the Nazis into neutral Spain - hewn out of rock from the same mountains they had to cross to make their getaway.
The monument is being put up in the parade ground at the Eden Camp Museum near Malton, made from two large slabs of rock from a French quarry in the Pyrenees.
The quarry owner's father helped Allied airmen after they were shot down during the conflict, and the memorial is being constructed by the Escape Lines Memorial Society, which meets regularly at the museum.
More than 8,000 servicemen were helped to escape over the mountains by resistance members, according to the society.
Eden Camp archivist Peter Cornick said: "Members of the society come from all over Europe to the museum. It's a real revelation to talk to them - they are wonderful people."
Updated: 11:00 Tuesday, August 30, 2005
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