Weapons in the stroller
The seeds of Greet’s social commitment were already sown when the Loosdrecht native was still in her cradle. While her mother maneuvered through the German lines as a courier, Greet’s pram served as a cover. As a baby, she lay on top of a cargo of forbidden goods and weapons.
The Zeldenrijks’ home was the heart of the local resistance. It was a shelter for people in hiding and a place where life-threatening missions were prepared.
Greet’s father, Jaap Zeldenrijk, was also in the resistance and managed to trick his way into the lion’s den: the house of Anton van der Waals. Van der Waals was looking for a maid. Jaap pushed his own sister Tiny forward.
While she cleaned there, she kept her ears open. She caught Van der Waals talking on the phone in fluent German. Through this type of espionage work, the Zeldenrijks managed to reveal that Van der Waals worked as an infiltrator for the Security Service. Jaap Zeldenrijk and his wife received the highest recognition for this: the Resistance Memorial Cross.
