Friday, September 08, 2023

Flirting with danger: A play based on the true story of 3 Dutch women who lured Nazi soldiers to their deaths

Unfortunately, we do not learn how many they killed. What did the ladies do with the dead body afterwards?

"... They were sisters Freddie and Truus Oversteegen and Hannie Schaft, who, in  1940 were 14, 16 and 20, respectively. While they, along with other resistance fighters, used dynamite to destroy bridges and railroads, and helped hide Jewish children and smuggled Jews out of the country, the very young women also would go to bars and pick up Nazi soldiers. They would ask the men to go for a walk in the forest under the pretense of romance or sex — and then shoot and kill them. Their story was told in a 2019 book, “Seducing and Killing Nazis,” by the Dutch author and activist Sophie Poldermans. ...
In addition to doing all of this active resistance work by actually murdering Nazis, one of them was hiding Jews in her home. ..."

Flirting with danger: A play based on the true story of 3 Dutch women who lured Nazis to their deaths premieres in NYC - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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