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Freddie and Truus Oversteegan

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Freddie and Truus Oversteegan were sisters who were two years apart and they lived with there mother before the war started. On the brink of the world war the mother who considered herself communist thought it was injustice on what the Nazi's thought of the Jewish people, so she hid the Jewish refugees in her household.

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In May 1940 The Netherlands was taken by the Nazi's. In response the sisters joined there mother in selling 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. These acts that the sisters did were things that could get them possibly killed they were dangerous but they got away with it because of how young they looked. they didnt look like the kind of people in resistances.

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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.“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. In one instance recorded one of the sisters seduced an officer into the woods so that a resistance member could shoot him. Soon after the sisters were sent to do there own assassinations. but soon moved onto killing dutch collaborators who arrested or endangered Jewish refugees and resistance members.they would follow a target to his house to kill him or ambush them on their bikes.Their other duties in the Haarlem Resistance Group included “bringing Jewish [refugees] to a new hiding place, working in the emergency hospital in Enschede… [and] blowing up the railway line between Ijmuiden and Haarlem,” writes Jonker.

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Freddie and Truus learned to shoot Nazis too, and the sisters began to go on assassination missions by themselves they saved people and would eliminate nazis who would be around there areas. They saved jewish refugees

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“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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Truus and Freddie Oversteegen: Sisters & Resistance Fighters

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Like most sisters, Truus and Freddie Oversteegen did not always get along. Truus, as the older of the two, was more assertive and dictatorial, and felt she was entitled to boss Freddie around. Fred…