• The Women's March 1945

Date of birth:

May 2nd, 1891 (Barneveld, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

March 29th, 1979 (Barneveld, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch War Grave Voorthuizen
Plot: A1. Row: 705. Grave: 428.

Nationality:

Dutch

On March 16, 1945, SD members, including Verhulsdonck, alias "The Fire Eater," raided their house. They arrested Cornelia, but the children managed to escape. She was interrogated and abused. Two days later, their house was set on fire.

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.
Cornelia was one of them

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• Photo 1: www.onlinebegraafplaatsen.nl
• - DOORN, I. VAN & SENNEMA, H., Vrouwenmars 1945, Stichting Vrouwenmars 1945, 2025.
  - https://www.genealogieonline.nl/familie-van-der-woerd/I391.php
  

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