Freddie Oversteegen

Freddie Nanda Dekker-Oversteegen (6 September 1925 – 5 September 2018) was a member of the Dutch resistance during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

Early life Freddie Oversteegen was born on 6 September 1925 in the village of Schoten, Netherlands.

Oversteegen, her sister, and friend Hannie Schaft worked to sabotage the Nazi military presence in the Netherlands. They used dynamite to disable bridges and railroad tracks. They also smuggled Jewish children out of the country or helped them escape concentration camps.

The Oversteegens and Schaft also killed German soldiers, with Freddie being the first of the girls to kill a soldier by shooting him while riding her bicycle. There is also a street named after her in Haarlem.

Oversteegen experienced a series of heart attacks towards the end of her life. She died on 5 September 2018 in a nursing home in Driehuis, one day before her 93rd birthday.

Personal life Freddie Oversteegen married Jan Dekker. They had three children.