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Date Of Birth
Johanna "Hannie" Schaft was born -
Hannie becomes a part of a resistance group
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 -
Hannie taking up arms
When Hannie was in the resistance movement generally looked after people in hiding or deliverd messages as a spy -
Beginning of World War Two
Hannie was in law school at the university of Amsterdam. -
Hannie offering resistance
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.” -
College graduates to Germany
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. -
After not signing loyalty affidalt
Hannie could not continue her education, moved in with her parents, helped people in with stolen identification and food cards. -
Jews wearing yellow starts
Hannie stole identity cards in all sorts of public areas from the Jews so she could disguise herself for someone she wasn’t. -
Hannie 19, Truus 16, Freddie 14
During World War Two they all spread illegal newspapers, stealing identity cards, disguising themselves as German girls and bringing Jewish Children to hiding places. -
Hannie and the power station
Hannie and some others tried to blow up a power station near Haarlem, only some exploded but still gave people hope. -
The RVV
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. -
The three girls in resistance
Hannie, Truus and Freddie as young women took up arms together. -
Hannie’s list
Hannie made a list of names of people who killed her leaders, and gave the list to sicherheitsdienst, which meant a certain death. -
Getting arrested
Hannie was arrested during a check routine in March 1945 for carrying illegal newspaper and a pistol in her bag. -
Armed resistance
“The girl with the red hair” who was executed by the Germans because of her resistance activities during World War Two. -
Germans occupied Holland
Hannie tried to help by creating a resistance, she sent small packages to captured polish officers. -
Elimination of several German secret police
Hannie and Truus saw Ko Langendijk, a hairdresser who bestayed people for money, Hannie and Truus shot him. They hid in a hotel afterwards. -
Nazis looking for Hannie
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. -
Tragic Death
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. -
After the war
Hannie became an undisputed resistance heroine
