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Ellie Marie

Ellie Marie

@ellievan52.bsky.social

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Pissed off, true 💙, introverted empath. I voted for the prosecutor and the coach. Childless dog lady. Retired Nurse Practitioner. Packer/ Badger fan. Descendant of WW2 Dutch resistance. Sophie Scholl and Hannie Schaft are my sheroes. Random DM=Block

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Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

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She died in 2019 but hers story of faith, hope, courage and love lives on.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

17/18
Even if we won’t see each other on earth again, we will never be sorry for what we did, and that we took this stand.

He signed off with the Latin phrase that was engraved on the gold engagement ring that he had given her: “Omnia vincit amor.”Love conquers all.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

16/18

By some miracle, a letter he had written on a single sheet of toilet paper and tossed from a train as he was being transported to the camp found its way to her.

“Darling, don’t count on seeing each other again soon,” he wrote, she said.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

15/18
She was in constant fear of recognizing her fiancé’s uniform, she recalled.

She learned in June 1945 that Hein Sietsma had been captured a month before she was and tortured to death at Dachau in Germany, barely four months before it was liberated.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

14/18 “There I sat on the top of one of those tanks. It was my own private triumph: I felt at that moment as if I’d actually won the war”

At Vught she had been assigned to wash the bloody uniforms of Dutch prisoners who had been executed, shot in the stomach to ensure a more excruciating death.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

13/18
She immediately rejoined the Resistance and remained with it until May 1945, when she mounted a tank and directed Canadian liberators to die-hard German snipers only days before Germany surrendered.

“Just like that, the Germans threw up their hands,” she recalled.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

12/18
Ms. Eman was interned in the Vught concentration camp in the southern Netherlands, but after stubbornly insisting that she was simply a callow housemaid, she was released three months later, in August 1944.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

11/18
In May 1944, while carrying false identity papers on a train,she was stopped, arrested & imprisoned. Before her arrest, she manage to ditch an envelope filled with even more incriminating evidence that she had hidden under her blouse.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

10/18
Ms. Eman remained a fugitive for months. She and Mr. Seitsma decided to marry and even set a wedding date, but then delayed it until after the war.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

9/18
Finally the Gestapo raided the apartment. A diary that contained her code name was discovered. She stopped in to see her boss at the bank.

“I stuck my head in his door,” she recalled, “and all I said was, ‘I have to go. See you after the war.’”

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

8/18
“You’re living on top of a volcano that’s ready to erupt,’ I told her,” Ms. Eman wrote of the woman.

Each time some of the Jews there were smuggled out to isolated farms outside the city, Ms. Eman returned to find that the woman had taken in more refugees.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

7/18
Ms. Eman delivered supplies and moral support to one apartment in The Hague that in late 1942 housed 27 Jews in hiding. The walls were paper thin. Crying babies and even toilet flushing risked raising the suspicions of neighbors, who knew only that a woman had been living there alone.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

6/18
A plea for help from Jewish co-worker prompted her Resistance group to focus on stealing food and gas ration cards, forging identity papers and sheltering hundreds of fugitive Jews.

She said of the German occupiers, “It was beyond their comprehension that we would risk so much for the Jews.”

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

5/18
By 1942 Dutch boys”men were being conscripted to fill factory jobs in Germany and the harassment of Dutch Jews escalated to outright persecution and transport to the Westerbork camp in the northeast Netherlands from which they were deported to death camps in Germany and German-occupied Poland

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

4/18
She and her boyfriend, Hein Seitsma, joined a Resistance group (coincidentally called HEIN, an acronym translated as “Help each other in need”). They began by spreading news received on clandestine radios from the British Broadcasting Corporation, then smuggling downed Allied pilots to England.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

3/18
Some of her neighbors, fellow churchgoers, argued that God in his wisdom must have willed the German invasion. But Ms. Eman — herself so deeply religious that she would leave assassinations, sabotage and, for the most part, even lying to others — could find no justification for such evil.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

2/18
Ms. Eman, at 20, was was working Twentsche Bank in The Hague when, in May 1940, the Germans, hours after Hitler had vowed to respect Dutch neutrality, invaded the Netherlands. Her sister’s fiancé was killed on the first of five days of fighting. A brother died later in a Japanese prison camp.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 6

1/18
On the Liberation on the Netherlands Day remembering and celebrating the life of Dutch resistance fighter Diet Eman who saved many lives in the Second World War . She hid Jewish people from the Nazis and bluffed her own way out of a concentration camp

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 5

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She was eventually arrested, tortured and murdered by Dutch fascists. After Liberation Schaft was buried in a state funeral.

The novel “To Die Beautiful” by Buzzy Jackson is based on the true story of Hannie Schaft.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 5

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Known in the movement as "the girl with red hair", the Nazis found out her identity, and sent her parents to a concentration camp. She was not Jewish, but she risked her life to defend and protect Dutch Jews, two in particular – her best friends Philine Polak and Sonja Frenk

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 5

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Hannie joined the Dutch Resistance, leaving behind a quiet life of studying law. Under Nazi occupation, she began stealing ID cards for Jewish residents. She then began armed actions: sabotaging and assassinating various targets including Germans and Dutch collaborators.

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · May 5

On Dutch Liberation Day remembering and celebrating the life of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft.
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Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · Feb 12

Because everything looks bleak right now

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · Feb 8

Now…………Then

Ellie Marie @ellievan52.bsky.social · Feb 7

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