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Hannie Schaft was a former student at the University of Amsterdam as a human rights lawyer who later dropped out because she refused to sign a pledge of loyalty to Germany. Hannie was a strong independed member of the Haarlem Resistance Group. She was known as the "Girl with Red Hair". Then later in 1945 Hannie was arrested and killed, 3 weeks before the war ended in Europe. Hannie's last words were, "I'm a better shot" after being wounded by her executioner.

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After the chaos, Ms. Oversteegen served as a board member in Truus's organization. (The Legacy of Schaft) However, Freddie "decided to be a little out of the limelight," Pliester said, and was sometimes overshadowed by Schaft and Truus, the group's leader.

"I have always been a little jealous of her becaues she got so much attention after the war," Ms. Oversteegen told Vice Netherlands in 2016.

It was said that the war was a source of pride and pain. A five-year experience that she never regretted, but came to haunt her in peacetime. She was unable to sleep, and 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.”

Sadly, years later, she passes at the age of 92 just a day before her 93rd birthday on september 5th 2018. Leaving a remarkable story to inspire others.

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Freddie Oversteegen at the time, was a 14 year old girl who joined the Dutch resistance. Due to some of her features, its as if she was 2 years younger. She would ride her bike down the streets of Haarlem in North Holland, with firearms hidden in her basket, she would walk through the woods serving as a lookout or seductively leading her SS target to a secluded place.

Supposedly, the Oversteegen's most daring act, was that they seduced their targets in taverns or bars, asked if they wanted to "go for a stroll" in the forest and "liquidated" them.

Quoted by Freddie says... "We had to do it ... It was necessary evil, killing those who betrayed the good people." Whenever she was asked how many people she killed, she objected: "One should not ask a soldier any of that."

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhgmfeMO27s

Ms Oversteegen's younger sister, Truus, founded the organization to promote the legacy of Schaft. "Schaft became the national icon of female resistance" Pliester said. Pliester was a martyr whose story was taught to children who were in school across the Netherlands and memorialized in a 1981 movie called, "The Girl With Red Hair" which the title was taken from Schafts nickname.

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Het meisje met het rode haar (1981) - trailer

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In 1941 the sisters were asked by a commander with the Haarlem Resistance Group to join. Later they did, but further in the job was when the commander told them they’d sabotage bridges and railway lines and learn to shoot the nazis.

Because Freddie and Truus looked so young, nobody would suspect that they would be the one killing the Nazis.

Their other jobs in the Haarlem Resistance Group included bring Jewish refugees to a new hiding place

One quote from Freddie Oversteegen says.. “We did not feel it suited us,”… “it never suits anybody unless they’re real criminals.” This quote is just basically saying that Freddie and Truus did not agree with the killing and murder, however they had to in order to protect the Jews and other innocent lives.

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I chose this song because it was a song that expresses love and appreciation to somebody that has died. Just like how Hannie Schaft died, the Oversteegen sisters dearly missed their partner and created a memorial about her to share her story to the world and show appreciation.

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This book was created to tell the story of the Oversteegen sisters and Hannie Schaft. It talks about how they worked, lived, survived, etc. This book can be found on Amazon.

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"Always stay human."

-Freddie

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Freddie and her sister Truus, who was two years older, grew up in the city of Haarlem with a single, working-class mother. Their mother considered herself a communist and taught her daughters the importance of fighting injustice. When Europe was on the brink of war in 1939, she took Jewish refugees into their homes.

Through their mother's example, Freddie and Truus "learned that if you have to help somebody, like refugees, you have to make sacrifices for yourself," says Jeroen Pliester, chair of the National Hannie Schaft Foundation. "I think that was one of the main drivers for them, the high moral principle and preparedness of their mother to act when it really matters."

In May 1940, Nazis invaded the Netherlands, beginning an occupation that lasted until the end of the war. In response, the girls joined their mother in distributing anti-Nazi newspapers and pamphlets for the resistance.

"We also glued warnings across German posters in the street calling men to work in Germany," Freddie later recalled in interviews she and her sister did with anthropologist Ellis Jonker, collected in the book Under Fire: Women and World War II. "And then we'd hurry off, on our bikes."

These acts weren't just subversive, they were also dangerous. If the Nazis or Dutch police caught the sisters, they might have killed them. However, the fact that they were both young girls-and Freddie looked even younger when she wore braids-meant that officials were less likely to suspect them of working for the resistance. This might be one of the reasons why, in 1941, a commander with the Haarlem Resistance Group visited their house to ask their mother if he could recruit Freddie and Truus.

Their mother consented and the sisters' agreed to join. "Only later did he tell us what we'd actually have to do: sabotage bridges and railway lines," Truus told Jonker. "'And learn to shoot, to shoot Nazis,' he added. I remember my sister saying: 'Well, that's something I've never done before!'"

In at least one instance, Truus seduced an SS officer into the woods so that someone from the resistance could shoot him. As the commander who recruited them had said, Freddie and Truus learned to shoot Nazis too, and the sisters began to go on assassination missions by themselves. Later on, they focused on killing Dutch collaborators who arrested or endangered Jewish refugees and resistance members.

"They were unusual, these girls," says Bas von Benda-Beckmann, a former researcher at the Netherlands' Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. "There were a lot of women involved in the resistance in the Netherlands but not so much in the way these girls were. There are not that many examples of women who actually shot collaborators themselves."

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This Teenager Killed Nazis With Her Sister During WWII | HISTORY

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Freddie and Truus Oversteegen sometimes ambushed Nazi officers from their bicycles-and never revealed how many they had assassinated.

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Members of the Haarlem Resistance group were involved in a range of resistance activities during the war. That included sabotage, assassination, and assisting in the rescue and hiding of Jewish individuals. They also printed and distributed anti-Nazi materials, helped create fake documents, and aided transport of weapons.

Assisting Jewish Individuals

-They played a crucial role in hiding and transporting Jewish people, particularly children, to safe havens. They also helped create fake identification papers and ration cards to aid their escape and survival.

Intelligence Gathering and Communication:

-The Haarlem Resistance Group, as part of the larger Haarlem Council of Resistance, gathered and disseminated intelligence, maintaining communication networks within the city and with other resistance groups.

Printing and Distribution of Propaganda:

-They printed and distributed anti-Nazi pamphlets and posters to inform the public about the war and the Nazi regime's actions.

Providing Support to Allied Forces

-The group also assisted Allied airmen who had been shot down over enemy territory and provided support to Allied forces during the liberation of the Netherlands.