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Freddie Nanda Dekker-Oversteegen (6 September 1925 – 5 September 2018) was a Dutch resistance member during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. ==Early life Freddie Oversteegen was born on 6 September 1925 in the village of Schoten, Netherlands. [1] She had an older sister, Truus Menger-Oversteegen. [2] She and her family lived ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2018.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Truus Menger-Oversteegen (Schoten, 29 August 1923 – Grootebroek, 18 June 2016) was a Dutch sculptor and painter. [1] During the Second World War she was a member of the anti- Nazi Dutch Resistance , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] together with her sister, Freddie Oversteegen , [ 4 ] and Hannie Schaft .
Freddie Oversteegen and her older sister were 14 and 16 when they joined the Dutch resistance. The sisters met Hannie Schaft, and the three worked as a team to kill Nazi soldiers. Their young age allowed them to evade suspicion and exploit weaknesses in Nazi security.
Freddie Mercury’s former fiancée, Mary Austin, remained one of his closest friends until his death.. The iconic Queen frontman met Austin in 1969, a year before the band formed. After dating ...
In less than 10 days, South Carolina’s execution chamber will reopen for the first time in more than 13 years. On Sept. 20, Freddie Owens, 46, a death row inmate convicted of murder, armed ...
A Greenville County inmate will be the first person to face execution in South Carolina since 2011. Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, was ordered to be executed on Sept. 20 after spending more than 20 ...
Jannetje Johanna Schaft was born in Haarlem, the capital of the province of North Holland. [1] Her mother, Aafje Talea Schaft (born Vrijer) was a Mennonite and her father, Pieter Schaft, a teacher, was attached to the Social Democratic Workers' Party; the two were very protective of Schaft because of the death due to diphtheria of her older sister Anna in 1927.