HANNIE SCHAFT, NAZI RESISTANCE WW II
Jannetje Johanna (Jo) Schaft (16 September 1920 – 17 April 1945) was a Dutch communist resistance fighter during World War II. She became known as the girl with the red hair (in Dutch Het meisje met het rode haar, also the title of a book and film about her). Her secret name in the resistance movement was Hannie.
Gravestone with her school photo on it; Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal [nl]
She was eventually arrested at a military checkpoint in Haarlem on 21 March 1945, while distributing the illegal communist newspaper de Waarheid, which was a cover story. She was transporting secret documentation for the Resistance. She worked closely with Anna A.C. Wijnhoff. [5] After much interrogation, torture, and solitary confinement, Schaft was identified by the roots of her red hair by her former colleague Anna Wijnhoff.[5]
Schaft was assassinated by Dutch Nazi officials on April 17, 1945.[5] Although at the end of the war there was an agreement between the occupier and the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (Dutch resistance) to stop executions, she was shot dead three weeks before the end of the war in the dunes of Bloemendaal. Two men took her there and one shot her at close range, only wounding her. She supposedly said to her executioners: "I shoot better than you," after which the other man delivered the final shot.
On November 27, 1945, Schaft was reburied in a state funeral. Queen Whilhelmina called Schaft "the symbol of the Resistance."However, when communism fell out of favor in the Netherlands, commemorations for Schaft were banned.
Jannetje Johanna (Jo) Schaft (16 September 1920 – 17 April 1945) was a Dutch communist resistance fighter during World War II. She became known as the girl with the red hair (in Dutch Het meisje met het rode haar, also the title of a book and film about her). Her secret name in the resistance movement was Hannie.
Gravestone with her school photo on it; Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal [nl]
She was eventually arrested at a military checkpoint in Haarlem on 21 March 1945, while distributing the illegal communist newspaper de Waarheid, which was a cover story. She was transporting secret documentation for the Resistance. She worked closely with Anna A.C. Wijnhoff. [5] After much interrogation, torture, and solitary confinement, Schaft was identified by the roots of her red hair by her former colleague Anna Wijnhoff.[5]
Schaft was assassinated by Dutch Nazi officials on April 17, 1945.[5] Although at the end of the war there was an agreement between the occupier and the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (Dutch resistance) to stop executions, she was shot dead three weeks before the end of the war in the dunes of Bloemendaal. Two men took her there and one shot her at close range, only wounding her. She supposedly said to her executioners: "I shoot better than you," after which the other man delivered the final shot.
On November 27, 1945, Schaft was reburied in a state funeral. Queen Whilhelmina called Schaft "the symbol of the Resistance."However, when communism fell out of favor in the Netherlands, commemorations for Schaft were banned.
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