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When Freddie Oversteegen was 14 she joined the Dutch resistance during world war 2. With her sister, and later Hannie Schaft, ambushed and killed German Nazis. Freddie and her sister Truus, grew up in the city of Harlem with a single working-class mother. Their mother taught them the importance of fighting for what is right and justice.

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In May 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, which lasted until the end of the war. Freddie and Taurus joined their mother and helped spread disturbing anti-Nazi newspapers for the resistance. The Tasks were dangerous. If anyone caught what the sisters were doing they would have killed them. They didn’t think anything of it because they were both young females, so they didn’t think anything of it. This was one of the reasons why they were recruited to the Haarlem resistance.

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Truus once seduced an SS officer into the woods so that someone in the resistance could shoot the officer from behind. The leader of the Haarlem resistance even trusted the two sisters to go on missions themselves and kill the nazis. Later they focused on killing mostly Dutch officers who arrested and dangered Jewish refugees.

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After the war, the sister had to deal with guilt and sadness for being a murderer and losing their best friend. Both sisters died at age 92, Truus died in 2016 and Freddie died on September 5, 2018, one day before turning 93. In 2014, the sisters both were recognized and received national recognition.

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“They were all deported and murdered"