Date of birth:

October 27th, 1912 (Soerakarta/Java, Dutch-East-Indies)

Date of death:

April 23rd, 1993 (Vancouver, Canada)

Nationality:

Dutch (1815-present, Kingdom)

Quirine Schulze was born as Soerakarta, Java on October 27th, 1912 as the daughter to Max Fedor Hans Emil Schulze (1867-1957) and Cornelia Corrie Kleist (1879-1959).. She married Frits Treffers (December 13th, 1907, Pampanoea/Celebes - January 12th, 1942, Tarakan) in December 1931. The couple had three children of whom one died at very young age. After the death of her husband (KNIL military), Quirine was imprisoned in the Japanese camp Kramat but managed to escape. Later she kept evaders from the Japanese hidden and aided them in their attempt to escape until she eventually was betrayed and tortured without revealing anything. She survived the war but had to leave Indonesia beceause of the Indonesian Revolution in 1946. At first she lived in the Netherlands where she remarried. After becoming a widow agains she emigrated to Canada where her daughter lived.

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Burger (Civilian)

Awarded on:

February 20th, 1954

For aiding and hiding refugees during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch-East-Indies.

Royal Decree No. 22.
423rd Award.

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