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Schaft was executed by Dutch Nazi officials on 17 April 1945. [5] Although at the end of the war there was an agreement between the occupier and the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten ('Dutch resistance') to stop executions, she was shot dead three weeks before the end of the war in the dunes of Overveen, near Bloemendaal. [5]
Melisande Tatiana Marie (Anda) Kerkhoven (Saint-Cloud (France), 10 April 1919 – Glimmen (The Netherlands), 19 March 1945) was a woman who joined the resistance during World War II. She was an important courier of the ‘De Groot’-group of Gerrit Boekhoven in Groningen. On 19 March 1945 she was shot by Dutch accomplices of the Sicherheitsdienst.
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 ...
Esmée Adrienne van Eeghen (7 July 1918 - 7 September 1944) was a Dutch resistance fighter in World War II.Van Eeghen is controversial because she fell in love with a German officer, but in spite of this played a significant role in the resistance, especially in Friesland, a role that would ultimately be fatal for her, due to her turbulent love life.
Gerritdina Benders-Letteboer and her husband, Johan Benders, became active members of the Dutch Resistance in response to the invasion and occupation of the Netherlands by Germany in May 1940, and the expulsion of Jewish students from the Amsterdams Lyceum as part of a series of persecution laws enacted against Dutch Jewish citizens. [12] [10] [13]
The Dutch colonized the southwestern part of South Africa in 1652 through the Dutch East India trading company. They controlled the Dutch Cape Colony for more than 150 years before British occupation.
Born in the village of Gees in the Netherlands province of Drenthe on 5 February 1920, Willemiena Bouwman was a daughter of the Rev. J. J. Bouwman. Sometime around the start of World War II, the family resided in Almelo; their father had been forced into hiding for forbidding a prominent member of the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands or NSB ...
A 17-year-old Dutch girl who sought euthanasia but was rejected by the government was allowed to die at home on Sunday after a years-long battle with depression and anorexia.