Truus and Freddie Oversteegen: Teenage Dutch Girls Who Killed Nazis in WW2

World History: True Stories of the 20th Century · Mar 27, 2026 · 12m

Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, teenage Dutch resistance fighters, became some of the most remarkable anti-Nazi operatives in the Netherlands during World War II. In May 1940, Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands, bringing occupation, repression, and the systematic persecution of Jews. As deportations to camps like Auschwitz, Sobibor, and Mauthausen began, a resistance movement slowly emerged. Among its most remarkable members were two teenage sisters from Haarlem: Truus and Freddie Oversteegen. Raised in a politically conscious household that sheltered Jewish refugees, Truus and Freddie…