Holocaust Resistance Movements Project by Isabella Holmes

Who, What

iholmes63 — 2024-01-08 13:12:10 UTC

Who are they? Freddie and Truus Oversteen were sister in the Netherland.

What did they do? These 2 sisters led and killed nazi soldiers in the woods.

Imortant facts

iholmes63 — 2024-01-08 13:27:05 UTC

Freddie joined the Dutch resistance during ww2
In 1939 the brought a jewish refugee into their home
They weren’t suspected since the looked so young

When and Where

iholmes63 — 2024-01-08 13:28:11 UTC

When did this happen? This sister pair started in 1940 during the WW2.

where did this happen? They lived in the Netherlands.

Was anyone else involved

iholmes63 — 2024-01-08 13:34:03 UTC

The sisters had a freind. Hannie joined them and they had as it was stated in History.com a sabotage and assassination cell. Hannie was killed in 1945 by a Dutch Nazi commander.

Freddie

iholmes63 — 2024-01-08 13:37:54 UTC

Freddie is the younger sister of the 2. She was just 14 when she started to get involved with the killing. She worked hard to sabatage the nazi soldiers. She sadly died at 92.

iholmes63 — 2024-01-08 13:44:05 UTC

Quotes From Freddie

iholmes63 — 2024-01-08 13:49:08 UTC

“It was a necessary evil, killing those who betrayed the good people.”

“Only later did he tell us what we’d actually have to do: sabotage bridges and railway lines,”

Quote from Truus

iholmes63 — 2024-01-08 13:51:14 UTC

“While I was biking, I saw Germans picking up innocent people from the streets, putting them against a wall and shooting them.”

It is crazy to think that people had to go through something like that. Being a young girl during this time was probably very frightining esspecially when you see somthign like that.