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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]
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]
Margaret Garner as depicted in Harper's Weekly c.1867. Infanticide was an act of rebellion because it allowed enslaved women to prevent the enslavement of their children. . Due to partus sequitur ventrum, the principle that a child inherits the status of its mother, any child born to an enslaved woman would be born enslaved, part of the enslaver's property
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.
Her book was released in the Netherlands in 2020 under the title Mijn naam is Selma. [3] In 1983 Van de Perre was awarded the Resistance Memorial Cross, a medal awarded in the Netherlands to members of the Dutch resistance during the Second World War. In 2021 she was awarded the Order of Orange-Nassau by the Dutch government. [1]
Publishing illegal papers – something the Dutch were very good at, with 1,100 separate titles appearing, some reaching circulations of more than 100,000 for a population of 8.5 million – was not considered resistance per se. [2] Only active resistance in the form of spying, sabotage, or with arms was what the Dutch considered resistance.
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.
Judith de Kom (16 March 1931 – 10 October 2024) was a Dutch-Surinamese activist and novelist. The daughter of Anton de Kom, a Surinamese pro-independence activist and member of the Dutch resistance who died in a German concentration camp in 1945, Judith de Kom spent much of her life campaigning for the recognition of her father's role during World War II.