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The North Holland Archives already had a lot of material about Schaft, but little about his childhood. The archive has now acquired that album from an immediate family member, 75 years after Schaft was executed at the age of 24 for her resistance work.
The photos show how Hannie grows up, from shortly after her birth to the 1930s. She can often be seen in a family context. The mother pasted snapshots of the family in Haarlem playing at home, on a trip to the sea in Zandvoort, with family in The Hague, with grandparents, uncles and aunts.
Hannie Schaft (right) plays with her sister on the beach.
Ⓒ NORTH DUTCH ARCHIVE
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A grandniece of Hannie Schaft has brought the album to the Noord-Hollands Archief. She found the photo album in 2000 while emptying the house of a deceased uncle.
Commemoration
On Sunday, Hannie Schaft will be commemorated, among other things with a meeting – closed due to corona – at which Minister Kajsa Ollongren will deliver the Hannie Schaft lecture. The meeting, from the Grote of St. Bavokerk in Haarlem, can be followed on television and online from 1 pm.
On Sunday evening, the NOS will broadcast a special about Hannie Schaft in which the highlights of the celebration can be seen. In addition to images of commemoration, a portrait is sketched of ‘the girl with the red hair’.
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