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Stouten - Wilde, de, Maria Hubertina Johanna (Miep / Tiny)

Date of birth:
March 24th, 1913 (Roermond, the Netherlands)
Date of death:
January 1st, 1990
Nationality:
Dutch

Biography

Plaque.
In 1947, the staff of the Foreign Expeditions Department took the initiative to install a commemorative plaque in their department as a posthumous tribute to their former boss, Mr. I. J. van den Bosch.
The unveiling took place in June 1947 in the presence of Frits Philips, Ir. Otten, Admiral Heeris. Also present were his wife Ebba v. d. Bosch-Vestesen, his son Hilmar and daughter Ingeborg, his secretary Miss M.H. J. (Tini) de Wilde ("Miep"), and many others, including Dre Gelderblom and Arie Voorwinde.

Resistance card: Maria Hubertina Johanna (Tini) de Wilde. Active for the NSF (Dutch Resistance Union).
Resistance contacts: Iman van den Bosch; Dean Buve, P.B. Venema, Fré Legger, G. Jonkers, E.J. v.d. Laan, and Kaaden v.d. Vasbinder.
Arrested on October 18, 1944, along with others, by the SD at Van Loon's house on Parkweg. Imprisoned in the Scholtenhuis police station, on Borkum, in the House of Detention, and Camp Westerbork. Released by Canadians from a prisoner transport near Visvliet in April 1945.

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.
Maria was one of them.

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