Gerda Fiil

Gerda Søvang Fiil (30 January 1927 - 26 June 1994) was a convicted member of the Danish resistance, whose father and brother were executed by the German occupying power.

With the group, she helped the British Special Operations Executive parachute weapons and supplies into Denmark for distribution to the resistance.

[1] In March 1944, the Gestapo made an "incredible number of arrests" including in the region of Randers herself, her father the "nationally known folklore collector and keeper of Hvidsten inn Marius Fiil", her brother Niels Fiil, her oldest sister Kirstine and her brother-in-law Peter Sørensen.

[2] The following month De frie Danske reported on her father again, that he along with other arrestees from Hvidsten had been transferred from Randers to Vestre Fængsel.

[citation needed] Gerda Fiil died in Hvidsten on 26 June 1994, survived by her husband Svend Jessen.