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Truus was more of a tomboy than her younger sister, particularly when she put her hair up under a cap to bike.
She passed away at the age of 92 in 2016

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Freddie died on September 5, 2018. She was 92 years old.

The next day, she would have turned 93.

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Freddie said that she coped with the trauma of the war by getting married and having babies. She married a man named Jan Dekker and they had three children together. although for the rest of her life she said she was haunted by her experience in the war

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book based on teh Oversteegen sisters and 

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book based on teh Oversteegen sisters and 

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The remarkable story of three Dutch teenagers who became spies, saboteurs, Nazi assassins and WWII heroes by Tim Brady,

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in 1941, a commander with the Haarlem Resistance Group visited their house to ask their mother if he could recruit Freddie and Truus. they agreed to join the Dutch resistance to fight the Nazi occupiers

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“We had to do it, it was a necessary evil, killing those who betrayed the good people.” When asked how many people she had killed said “One should not ask a soldier any of that.”

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Freddie and her sister, Truus were resisters who abused and killed German Nazis during WW1. They were very young teenage girls only two years apart. They lived in the Netherlands in the city of Haarlem with their single working mother. Their mother was a communist and taught Freddie and Truus to fight against injustice. In 1939 during the war in Europe they took in Jewish refugees into their home.

Freddie and her sister decided to joined their mother in distributing anti-Nazi newspapers and pamphlets in acts for resistance. They Would  sabotaged bridges and rail lines with dynamite, shoot Nazis while riding their bikes, and donned disguises to smuggle Jewish children across the country and sometimes out of concentration camps.

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Freddie posing with her gun she killed nazis with 

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History of the "girl with red hair" written in Dutch she was an important member of the group with the Oversteegen sisters 

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“Only later did he tell us what we’d actually have to do: sabotage bridges and railway lines,” Truus told  Ellis Jonker for his 2014 book Under Fire: Women and World War II. He wrote about woman like them who were resisters during the time.

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old battle song that served as an anthem for her and her sister

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old battle song that served as an anthem for her and her sister

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she sometimes recalled the words of an old battle song that served as an anthem for her and her sister: “We have carried the best to their graves/ torn and fired at, beaten till the blood ran/ surrounded by the executioners on the scaffold and jail/ but the raging of the enemy doesn’t frighten us.”

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truus and freddie by a building having a conversation

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documentary of Freddie and Truus Oversteegen 

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documentary of Freddie and Truus Oversteegen - Google Search