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Johanna "Hannie" Schaft was born
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Hannie was part of an organization called the resistance group. --Hannie had eliminated several members of the German secret police and Dutch collaborators as a part of the Resistance Group
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When Hannie was in the resistance movement generally looked after people in hiding or deliverd messages as a spy
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Hannie was in law school at the university of Amsterdam.
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An example is that when Jews weren’t allowed to walk in a park anymore, she said “If they aren’t aloud to walk there, I won’t walk there either.”
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After college, all graduates were sent to Germany to work or if they wanted to continue their education they had to sign a loyalty affidalt, Hannie did not sign.
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Hannie could not continue her education, moved in with her parents, helped people in with stolen identification and food cards.
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Hannie stole identity cards in all sorts of public areas from the Jews so she could disguise herself for someone she wasn’t.
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During World War Two they all spread illegal newspapers, stealing identity cards, disguising themselves as German girls and bringing Jewish Children to hiding places.
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Hannie and some others tried to blow up a power station near Haarlem, only some exploded but still gave people hope.
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The RVV ordered Hannie and another member to kill a German secret police man, instead of a shot a click wa Shepard and nothing happened, it was a test from the RVV to see if she would pass, she passed.
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Hannie, Truus and Freddie as young women took up arms together.
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Hannie made a list of names of people who killed her leaders, and gave the list to sicherheitsdienst, which meant a certain death.
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Hannie was arrested during a check routine in March 1945 for carrying illegal newspaper and a pistol in her bag.
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“The girl with the red hair” who was executed by the Germans because of her resistance activities during World War Two.
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Hannie tried to help by creating a resistance, she sent small packages to captured polish officers.
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Hannie and Truus saw Ko Langendijk, a hairdresser who bestayed people for money, Hannie and Truus shot him. They hid in a hotel afterwards.
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Nazis started looking for Hannie so she had to dye her hair black and wear glasses made out of clear glass in disguise so she wouldn’t be recognized.
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April 17, 1945, a truck left to a beach where a path is lead to sand dunes, carrying Hannie, a Dutch driver, three German soldiers, and a Dutch detective. Walking out to the dunes a German, Mattheus Schmitz, shot Hannie in the head but did not kill her so the detective, Maarten Kuijper, shot her again and she falls dead and is later buried with 421 others.
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Hannie became an undisputed resistance heroine
