Remembrance Day

May the 4th is our national Remembrance Day and my blip is of pré Corona times, 2015 to be precise, when I was there together with my daughter.

We'd been to the city for the day and had been present at the book presentation by Paul van Tongeren, who'd written a book about his aunt Jacoba vanTongeren. She'd been a social worker in Amsterdam and had become the leader of a group of resistance against the Nazi occupants. That there had been women who'd initiated a resistance group and were leading such, was not known, not revealed by historians for decades. 

Jacoba van Tongeren had the "Group 2000" and managed to keep her coded administration safe; not shared with anyone. She managed to deliver "food coupons" for 4500 folks in hiding; she had them hidden in the special gardigan she was wearing when travelling thro' the land what made here look like being pregnant. After WW II she didn't boast about her illegal resistance works and since women's roles were overlooked, denied, her act of resistance wasn't known to the public for decades. The men who'd leaded a resistance group had their groups named by their name, Jacoba had her group named "Group 2000" Her name was never mentioned. 20 years after the ending of WW II she'd been interviewed for a newspaper to tell about her resistance work during the WW II and the occupation of Holland; but then her health was feeble and she died in 1967. 

ONly few knew about her role in resistance and it's thanks to her nephew Paul van Tongeren who discovered her written memoires just a decade ago and started to research them and write a book about her legacy. 
There's a tele documentary on Jacoba van Tongeren to see here when you click on the white arrow it starts 
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