Mathilde Verspyck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mathilde Verspyck

Date of Birth: 16-Jun-1908

Place of Birth: Semarang, Indonesia

Date of Death: 11-Feb-1945

Profession: resistance fighter

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Mathilde Adrienne Eugénie Verspyck (July 16, 1908 – February 11, 1945) "was a brave woman who was a devoted believer in the cause of freedom, for which she later sacrificed her life," according to her U.S.
Medal of Freedom award.A committed freedom fighter who was actively involved with European resistance movements during World War II, Verspyck survived imprisonment at one Nazi concentration camp only to perish at another.Arrested and jailed twice between 1941 and 1943 for her involvement with resistance work, she was arrested a third time in mid-April 1944 for sheltering and facilitating the escape of political prisoners and Allied pilots, as well as espionage.
Jailed at the prison at Scheveningen, she was transported to Herzogenbusch (Vught) in the Netherlands two months later.
Transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany three months later, she died there on February 11, 1945.