On this day, 29 August 1923, anti-Nazi resistance fighter and sculptor Truus Oversteegen (pictured, right) was born in Schoten, Netherlands. Together with her younger sister, Freddie (left), she joined the Haarlem resistance group in 1941 and began sabotaging railways and killing fascists: on at least one occasion seducing an SS officer leading him into the woods to be shot. Unlike her best friend and comrade Hannie Schaft Truus survived the war and lived a long life, and used her art as one way of dealing with the trauma of killing and losing Hannie. This is a podcast episode we produced about antifascist youths during World War II: https://soundcloud.com/workingclasshistory/anti-nazi-youth-world-war-ii https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1198583233660158/?type=3
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