• The Women's March 1945

Date of birth:

August 13th, 1919 (Ermelo, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

November 12th, 2000

Nationality:

Dutch

Wife of resistance fighter Willem Bolhuis, active in Ermelo. Together they helped pilots. He was involved with the Trouw group. The illegal newspaper Trouw was printed in her family's printing house. Tiny collected the heavy, lead-type elements of the newspaper at the station and transported them to the printing house by hiding them in the pram, which almost collapsed under the weight. She also distributed the newspaper.

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.
Tiny was one of them.

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