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Limburg 1940-1945,
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The fallen resistance people in Limburg
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Anna Pijnacker Hordijk was a daughter of rev. Arij Pijnacker Hordijk and Alida Margaretha Theodora de Ridder. She was married to Matthias Adriaan Snoeck. Sister of rev. Adriaan Nicolaas Pijnacker Hordijk and rev. Herbert Jacobus Pijnacker Hordijk. So a real theologian’s family. [1]
She rendered aid to downed British airmen. On April 10, 1942, she was arrested. She was probably one of the first Dutch women arrested for helping Allied pilots.
Until about June 20, 1942, she was imprisoned in the Oranjehotel [2] in Scheveningen. Via Utrecht and Vught she was deported to the infamous German concentration camp for women KZ Ravensbrück, where she died of malnutrition on January 25, 1944. After her, the Nijmegen resister Johanna Brendel-Jansen also died in Ravensbrück concentration camp in November 1944. Six other arrested women from Nijmegen and Groesbeek survived Ravensbrück. [3]
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