{"id":481,"date":"2015-06-01T19:15:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tante-roosje.com\/dev\/?page_id=481"},"modified":"2025-01-24T09:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T09:49:15","slug":"ervaringen-in-oorlogstijd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/book.roosjefoundation.org\/us\/archief\/verraad-en-collaboratie\/ervaringen-in-oorlogstijd\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosies wartime experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/book.roosjefoundation.org\/us\/archief\/verraad-en-collaboratie\/ervaringen-in-oorlogstijd\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Rosies wartime experience&url=https:\/\/book.roosjefoundation.org\/us\/archief\/verraad-en-collaboratie\/ervaringen-in-oorlogstijd\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/book.roosjefoundation.org\/us\/archief\/verraad-en-collaboratie\/ervaringen-in-oorlogstijd\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/book.roosjefoundation.org\/us\/archief\/verraad-en-collaboratie\/ervaringen-in-oorlogstijd\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><\/div><p><\/p>\n<h3>The Germans invaded the Netherlands<\/h3>\n<p>When the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940 Rosie\u2019s brother is serving as a soldier guarding the State Printer\u2019s in The Hague. The Germans had not reached The Hague at that point. A Dutch compatriot fires at him from a window. The bullet barely misses him, tearing his glasses from his face. He is only able to escape to safety after nightfall.<\/p>\n<h3>Betrayal from (ex-)husband Leo and lover Kees<\/h3>\n<p>Rosie (ex-)husband Leo reports her to the Kultuurkamer. Rosie is forced to close her thriving dance school.<br \/>\nLeo and his brother Marinus betray Rosie to the commissioner of police and the mayor. Rosie is arrested and handed over to the SS who lock her up for six weeks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/book.roosjefoundation.org?p=509\">Read betrayal letter October 11th 1941<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/book.roosjefoundation.org?p=514\">Read betrayal letter February 28th 1942<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/book.roosjefoundation.org?p=519\">Read message &#8216;Kultuurkamer&#8217; March 13th 1942<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/book.roosjefoundation.org?p=521\">Read letter to the police March 21th 1942<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Rosie is summoned to make her way \u2018voluntarily\u2019 to Westerbork she changes her identity and moves into rooms with Mr and Mrs Coljee in Naarden. Mrs Coljee is German and her husband is an NSB member. Rosie is betrayed by her Dutch lover Kees. She is arrested by a Dutch policeman at gunpoint, interrogated by Dutch SS, locked in a police cell, and transported to Camp Westerbork.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/book.roosjefoundation.org?p=525\">Read betrayal letter Marinus May 25th 1942<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/book.roosjefoundation.org?p=523\">Read betrayal letter Leo May 26th 1942<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Germans do not feature in any of these events. Rosie\u2019s (ex-)husband Leo, his brother Marinus, her lover Kees, the policeman, inspector Verstappen, his boss van Keulen, the commissioner, the mayor, the civil servants at the Kultuurkamer, the people who stripped her house,  cheated her out of her money, the railway staff, the prison guards&#8230; all of them were Dutch.<\/p>\n<h3>Westerbork and Camp Vught<\/h3>\n<p>In Westerbork and later in Camp Vught to which she is transferred, many of the guards and other assistants ware likewise Dutch. The senior SD chief in Westerbork, Jorg Mulner (fictional name) who organised the deportations ( Rosie made up the lists) was a Dutchman.<br \/>\nIn Camp Vught, Dutch Aufseherinnen treat the Dutch prisoners badly. They include Katja Schol and Jenny van Rijnsbergen.<\/p>\n<p>German Magda Coljee and her NSB husband Henk help Rosie by sending her weekly food parcels and Mrs Coljee even visits her in Camp Westerbork. A number of her students at the dance school also visit her in Westerbork via a special arrangement organised  by Rosie herself.<br \/>\nRosie\u2019s mother writes to Rosie from Westerbork and her father to Coljee to tell they will be leaving that day to the dreadful East. A couple of days later they are murdered in Sobibor. Rosie leaves Vught for Auschwitz.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/book.roosjefoundation.org?p=527\">Read last letter Rosie\u2019s mother<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/book.roosjefoundation.org?p=529\">Read last letter Rosie\u2019s father<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rosie hears nothing and sees nothing of her native Netherlands or the Dutch Red Cross. The Netherlands is conspicuous by its absence when other relief organisations are active in Germany towards the end of the war, including the Swedish, Belgian and French Red Cross. She is forced to pretend to be Danish in order to be helped. Thanks to food parcels from the Swedish Red Cross she manages to survive.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Germans invaded the Netherlands When the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940 Rosie\u2019s brother is serving as a soldier guarding the State Printer\u2019s in The Hague. The Germans had not reached The Hague at that point. 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