Date of birth:

November 13th, 1919 (Diepenveen, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

January 22nd, 2014 (Ermelo, the Netherlands)

Nationality:

Dutch

The Women's March 1945.
A total of 116 women are imprisoned in Camp Westerbork, originating from active resistance families from central and northeastern Netherlands. Assembled in Westerbork between 21 March and 6 April 1945 from 4 Sicherheitsdienst (SD) prisons in the country:
• Willem III Barracks in Apeldoorn – approximately 75 women come from here from Putten, Barneveld, Ermelo, Ede, Veenendaal, Utrecht
• House of Detention in Groningen – approximately 20 women, 16 of whom from Groningen or the surrounding area
• House of Detention in Zwolle – 12 women from Zwolle, 3 from Kampen and 2 women from Hellendoorn and Beerzerveld
• De Kruisberg in Doetinchem – most women from the Willem III barracks in Apeldoorn were held here for a few more days, together with a few prisoners from Zutphen, Twello, Lutten aan de Dedemsvaart.
The women have all ranks and ages, ranging from 17 to 63 years. Among them pregnant girls, a baroness, strict reformed people next to a reviled communist, and a fortune teller.
Mechteld was one of them.

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• Photo 1: Natalie Overkamp
• - DOORN, I. VAN & SENNEMA, H., Vrouwenmars 1945, Stichting Vrouwenmars 1945, 2025.
  - https://doetinchemherdenkt.nl/vrouwen-kruisberg
  - https://www.genealogieonline.nl/west-europese-adel/I123772.php
  - https://www.adelinnederland.nl/de-laatste-freule-van-leuvenum/