biography
| name: |
Schaft, Hannie
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popular name of Jannetje Johanna Schaft
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pronunciation:
[skhahft]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1920–45)
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| biography:
| A resistance worker during the German occupation of The Netherlands, born in Haarlem, The Netherlands. She studied law at Amsterdam until 1943, when she joined the resistance in Haarlem as a courier and executioner of collaborators. She was captured by the Germans in 1945 and shot. As a heroine of the resistance she has been the subject of a novel by Theun de Vries, Het meisje met het rode haar (The Girl with the Red Hair), and a film of the same name by Ben Verbong. There is a monument to her in Haarlem by the sculptress Truus Menger. |
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