Anita Blijdorp has been investigating the Wieringermeer war past for years. Her uncle Jan was also with the resistance. “Bep said on the phone that she was still madly in love with him on the ULO”.
Right woman in the right place
A few years ago she visited Elisabeth Lindenbergh in Norway, where she went to live after the war. In the chronicleThe magazine of the Historical Society Wieringermeer, she wrote a piece about the resistance woman.
“She was the right woman in the right place. The proofs of identity were of course of course for the Germans to check and pick up people. Because she worked on the population administration of the municipality, she had a position to do something to prevent that,” says Blijdorp
Weapons in the bicycle bag
Beps work expanded more and more. In the winter of 1944 she started to bring messages and goods as a courier. In addition, one day she was stopped by a German patrol. Several stenguns were hidden under a batch of vegetables in its bicycle bags. Her young and innocent appearance must have been her salvation then.
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