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The sisters mother was a communist and taught them the importance of fighting injustice. When Europe was on the brink of war in 1939, she took Jewish refugees into their home.

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In 1940 Freddie Oversteegen left her home in the Netherlands to join a Dutch resistance group where she was taught how to shoot Nazis.

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Freddie Oversteegen (14 yrs old at the time), and her older sister Truus (16 yrs old at the time) became assassins. They seduced and lured Nazis to kill them.

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Truus had seduced an SS officer and lured them into the wood so someone from the resistance can shoot them.
They focused on killing Dutch collaborators who arrested or endangered Jewish refugees and resistance members.
{SS Officer - officer under Adolf Hitler}

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1943- The sisters  joined forces with another women, Hannie Schaft. Hannie had became their best friend and sadly 2 years later (1945) she was arrested and killed by Nazis.

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The sisters dealt with the trauma of killing people and losing their best friend Truus created sculptures, and later spoke and wrote about their time in the resistance {helped cope} Freddie coped “by getting married and having babies,”

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“I remember how people were taken from their homes. The Germans were banging on doors with the butts of their rifles — that made so much noise, you’d hear it in the entire neighborhood,” she said.

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-World war II

-1939 {brink of war, took Jews to home}
-1940 {when they joined the dutch resistance}

-1943 {joined forces with another young women}

-1945 {Their friend Hannie was captured by Nazis and killed}

-2016 {truus passed at 92}

-September 5, 2018 {Freddie passed away at 92 day before her 93rd bday}

-they were only 14/16 yrs old