Date of birth:

October 2nd, 1919 (Zaandam, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

July 21st, 2013 (Deventer, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Graves General Cemetery Diepenveen

Nationality:

Dutch

It's November 1944. Nonny is 25 years old. She still lives at home with her siblings in the strictly Calvinist town of Veenendaal. Nonny stands out there with her dry wit and frivolous skirts. She graduated from the Vocational School for Women's Labor and desperately wants to marry her Tom. But then Tom asks her to deliver an illegal letter.
Knowing she's on a dangerous mission, Nonny delivers the mail. At the farm where she's supposed to deliver the letter, she falls into a trap. She's beaten by the Germans and forced to stand outside for hours without a coat. Meanwhile, the Germans launch a manhunt for her fiancé. He's not caught and only expands his resistance activities. Hok even becomes district head of the province of Utrecht. Nonny is arrested by the Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service).
A nightmare begins. She is locked up in a barracks in Apeldoorn and interrogated for days. A growling German Shepherd lies in front of the desk of interrogator "The Fire Eater." She reveals nothing about Group Albrecht, the secret intelligence service for which she worked. Tom manages to go into hiding. Nonny communicates this through tiny notes she exchanges with her sister Dita. Every Friday, she cycles back and forth for four hours on her bicycle with wooden tires, carrying clean laundry for the barracks. She sews the notes in the laundry, and Nonny sends them back in the same way. After months of confinement, Nonny ends up in Camp Westerbork on March 27, 1945. There she is given the blue overalls with number 59 on the back. (Source: Flair issue 17-2025).

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.
Nonny was one of them.

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• Photo 1: Vrouwenmars 1945
• - DOORN, I. VAN & SENNEMA, H., Vrouwenmars 1945, Stichting Vrouwenmars 1945, 2025.
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