Lis Mellemgaard (née Wognsen, 20 February 1924 – 5 July 2019[1]) was a Danish ophthalmologist and resistance spy.
A member of the Holger Danske Group, she escaped execution by the Nazis as she remained at home with a sore throat.
[4] Her early work in connection with the Dansk Samling party prepared her for involvement in the resistance movement from August 1943 when the Danish government ceased cooperating with the Germans.
Initially, she distributed illegal newspapers and books, kept guard at sabotage sites and tracked suspected informers.
[4] In February 1945, her colleagues in the Holger Danske group were arrested at a watchmaker's shop where they regularly met.