https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94 Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2019-04-08 20:09:33 UTC 2023-09-30 12:35:50 UTC hello@padlet.com yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350115840 Freddie Oversteegen was born 6 September 1925 in the village of Schoten, Netherlands.She had an older sister, Truus Menger-Oversteegen.She and her family lived on a barge. Before the war, the Oversteegen family harbored people from Lithuania in the hold of their ship, hidden. After the divorce of her parents, Oversteegen was raised by her mother, who taught her communist principles.She moved from the barge to a small apartment.Oversteegen's mother would later remarry and give birth to her half-brother. The family lived in poverty.]]> 2019-04-09 19:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350115840 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350116906 2019-04-09 19:46:06 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350116906 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350117827 During the war, the Oversteegen family hid a Jewish couple in their home. Freddie Oversteegen and her older sister Truus began handing out anti-Nazi pamphlets, which attracted the notice of Haarlem Council of Resistance commander Frans van der Wiel. With their mother's permission, the girls joined the Council of Resistance, which brought them into a coordinated effort. Freddie was fourteen years old at the time.]]> 2019-04-09 19:48:43 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350117827 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350118631 2019-04-09 19:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350118631 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350118858 The Oversteegens and Schaft also killed German soldiers, with Freddie the first of the girls to kill a soldier by shooting them while riding their bicycles. They lured soldiers to the woods under the pretense of a romantic overture and then killed them. Oversteegen would approach the soldiers in taverns and bars and ask them to "go for a stroll" in the forest.]]> 2019-04-09 19:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350118858 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350118972 2019-04-09 19:51:53 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350118972 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350120353 Oversteegen served as a board member on the National Hannie Schaft Foundation, which was established by her sister, Truus. In 2014, Freddie and Truus were awarded the Mobilisation War Cross (Mobilisatie-Oorlogskruis) by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte for their acts of resistance during the war. There is also a street named after her in Haarlem.]]> 2019-04-09 19:55:39 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350120353 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350120729 2019-04-09 19:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350120729 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350121036 Oversteegen experienced a series of heart attacks towards the end of her life. She died on 5 September 2018 in a nursing home in Driehuis, one day before her ninety-third birthday.]]> 2019-04-09 19:57:48 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350121036 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350123806 2019-04-09 20:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350123806 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350124963 2019-04-09 20:11:01 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/350124963 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/351285930 Freddie Oversteegen married Jan Dekker. They had three children.]]> 2019-04-12 18:55:24 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/351285930 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/351286517
She was 14 when she joined the Dutch resistance, though with her long, dark hair in braids she looked at least two years younger.
When she rode her bicycle down the streets of Haarlem in North Holland, firearms hidden in a basket, Nazi officials rarely stopped to question her. When she walked through the woods, serving as a lookout or seductively leading her SS target to a secluded place, there was little indication that she carried a handgun and was preparing an execution.

]]> 2019-04-12 18:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/351286517 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/351286859 The Dutch resistance was widely believed to be a man’s effort in a man’s war. If women were involved, the thinking went, they were likely doing little more than handing out anti-German pamphlets or newspapers.]]> 2019-04-12 18:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/351286859 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/351287146 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/freddie-oversteegen-dutch-resistance-fighter-who-killed-nazis-through-seduction-dies-at-92/2018/09/16/7876eade-b9b7-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.56a9ea709d14]]> 2019-04-12 18:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/351287146 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/351287329 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Oversteegen]]> 2019-04-12 18:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/351287329 yeagerc1 https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/351287991 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s4kIN8ws4eU]]> 2019-04-12 19:01:47 UTC https://padlet.com/yeagerc1/evlnkgu0cc94/wish/351287991