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A modest woman, she spoke little of her work with the Dutch Resistance until she was interviewed by Nico Scheepmaker for an article in the Dutch newspaper, De Gooi-en Eemlander, regarding Marga Minco's book, "Het Bittere Kruid" ("The Bitter Herb"). [18] Ina Drukker-Boekbinder's mother and sister both also survived the war. [19]
Princess Wilhelmina on 4 May 1955, at the monument for Kuipers-Rietberg in Winterswijk. Statue by Gerrit Bolhuis.. Helena Theodora Kuipers-Rietberg (26 May 1893 – 27 December 1944) was a Dutch resistance member who played an important role during World War II, when she was one of the driving forces of a national underground organization that supported those who were hiding from the German ...
Hannie Schaft and Truus Oversteegen were planning to liquidate NSB member and Haarlem policeman Fake Krist (in Dutch) on 25 October 1944, but other Haarlem resistance fighters were ahead of them. On 1 March 1945, NSB police officer Willem Zirkzee was killed by Hannie Schaft and Truus Oversteegen, near the Krelagehuis on the Leidsevaart in Haarlem.
Onahal – An older women in the king's harem. She helps Oroonoko visit Imoinda after Imoinda is forced into the king's harem. Tuscan – A fellow slave to Oronokoo. He plays a vital role in the slave resistance against Governor Byam. Governor Byam – the governor of Surinam and the owner of the plantation that Oroonoko and Imoinda are living ...
Finally, the Dutch slave trade was abolished in June 1814 by Royal Decree from William I. In May 1818, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands concluded an Anglo-Dutch Slave Trade Treaty, which, among other things, provided for the establishment of two Joint Courts of Justice to convict slavers who tried to evade the ban. However, the legal ...
The Dutch Resistance and the OSS (2012) Bentley, Stewart. Orange Blood, Silver Wings: The Untold Story of the Dutch Resistance During Market-Garden (2007) Fiske, Mel, and Christina Radich. Our Mother's War: A Biography of a Child of the Dutch Resistance (2007) van der Horst, Liesbeth. The Dutch Resistance Museum (2000) Schaepman, Antoinette.
In c. 1538-1542, Juliana, a Guaraní woman of early-colonial Paraguay, killed a Spanish colonist (her husband or master), and urged the other enslaved indigenous women to do the same; ending executed. [16] [17] [18] In 1539, Gaitana of the Paez led the indigenous people of northern Cauca, Colombia in armed resistance against colonization by the ...
Ruff-O'Herne was born in 1923 in Bandung in the Dutch East Indies, then a colony of the Dutch Empire.She grew up as a devout Catholic. [4] During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, Ruff-O'Herne and thousands of Dutch women were forced into hard physical labor at a prisoner-of-war camp at a disused army barracks in Ambarawa, Indonesia. [5]