https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno The Story of a Teenage Resistance Fighter en-us 2022-03-18 18:37:18 UTC 2025-05-08 22:30:51 UTC hello@padlet.com dma31 https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393771 2022-03-18 18:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393771 dma31 https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393773 Freddie Oversteegen was recruited for the Dutch Resistance along with her sister in 1941. She became one of their armed assassins around the age of 16. She also seduced people to bait them to be killed. Since Freddie and her sister were only teenagers, officials were less likely to suspect them to be working for the resistance. In 1943, they joined forces with their new best friend Hannie Schaft. Freddie, Truus, and Hannie worked together to form a sabotage and assassination cell. Aside from this, she aided Jews by smuggling them out from the country or helping them escape concentration camps.]]> 2022-03-18 18:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393773 dma31 https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393776 2022-03-18 18:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393776 dma31 https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393782 The Netherlands failed to properly recognize many of Freddie's achievements, but in 2014 she received national recognition for her service. She was given the War Mobilization Cross (Mobilisatie-Oorlogskruis). 

Freddie Oversteegen died on September 5, 2018; the day before her birthday.]]> 2022-03-18 18:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393782 dma31 https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393785 2022-03-18 18:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393785 dma31 https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393787 2022-03-18 18:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393787 dma31 https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393789 2022-03-18 18:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393789 dma31 https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393791 2022-03-18 18:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393791 dma31 https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393793 2022-03-18 18:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393793 dma31 https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393794 After the war, Freddie and her sister Truus were dealing with the trauma of killing people. They also lost their best friend Hannie three weeks before the war ended. Freddie coped by "getting married and having babies," Many Nazis or Dutch collaborators were killed by Freddie, but she also helped save many Jews.]]> 2022-03-18 18:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393794 dma31 https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393796 Freddie Oversteegen, Truus Oversteegen, and Hannie Schaft were friends/family that worked together.]]> 2022-03-18 18:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393796 dma31 https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393799 Freddie Oversteegen was born on September 6, 1925. Freddie grew up in the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands with a single working mother and an older sister. She was a teenager around the time of the Holocaust and World War II. Freddie was a resistance fighter in the Holocaust. ]]> 2022-03-18 18:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dma31/2f7297c3k9c3cjno/wish/2102393799