Helena Kuipers-Rietberg

Helena Kuipers-Rietberg Theodora ( May 26, Winterswijk, Ravensbrück, 1893 - december 27, 1944) was a Dutch resistance fighter who has played a prominent role in theSecond World War. She was the great and silent force behind the national organisation for help to people in hiding. In the resistance she was called Noor .



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[hide] *1 childhood, education and marriage  ==Childhood, education and marriage[ Edit] == Heleen Kuipers was born as the daughter of a grain merchant and Henry Miller Rietberg and Clara Christina Theodora Dulfer. She was the fourth child in a reformed family with two sons and three daughters. After elementary school, she followed the three-year HBS where she her future husband, Piet Kuipers (Pieter Heijo Kuipers (1892-1978), grain merchant) met. Kamal worked after the HBS in the Office with her Daddy and her husband bought itself at that company. They had after the marriage on 21 april 1921 two sons and three daughters between 1922 and 1933. Kuipers was primarily responsible for the education but in addition with her husband is active in many organizations in the social area. In 1932, she was a founding member of the reformed Vrouwenvereeniging in Netherlands and from its creation in 1937 main board member of the Union of Reformed Vrouwenvereenigingen in Netherlands. As a result, they had many contacts throughout the country that would be of great use later in occupying time. H. T. Kuipers-Rietberg==Resistance Work[ Edit] == Kuipers, who lived at the border with Germany, had already in the 1930s soon by which side it would go with the German dictator Hitler. Soon after the occupation of the Netherlands by Germans went therefore the resistance in her family. Kamal itself started her resistance work by two Jews in home and other Jews in hiding to elsewhere. They got support from her husband Pieter Heijo Kuipers, who had withdrawn to the Achterhoek in hiding and fled to help prisoners of war . After the allies had begun in March 1943 with a large air offensive against Germany came here also the crew members of the aircraft above the rear corner shot, which likewise to hiding places had to be helped.
 * 2 resistance work
 * 3 imprisonment and death
 * 4 Legacy
 * 5 external link

In november 1942 came Kuipers in contact with the reformed preacher Frits Saha from Heemse and continued with its help a national network of local committees on this largest resistance organization in Netherlands.: the national organisation for help to people in hiding (LO) and the connected Rural commando groups since August 1943 (LKP).

On 24 may 1944 warned a police officer the man of Kuipers for a imminent arrest. They brought their children in early July and partly elsewhere under knew just in time to escape. An attempt by the Sicherheitsdienst them by broadcasting messages on train stations between Winterswijk, Arnhem and Zutphen to detect failed. In this she was asked in connection with a fatal accident by one of their children at the counter to report.The couple loved initially hiding at a cigar manufacturer to Bennekom. But the Lady of the House could no longer meet the tension and Kuipers and her husband wanted to go. On August 17, 1944 was the courier, which bring the needed new identity cards came, was arrested by the Gestapo on our way troughout. As a result the Germans came the couple on the track. They were betrayed by Miep Orange. Two days later they were arrested. ==Imprisonment and death[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the prison in Arnhem took Kamal in concert (one would charge a woman less heavy business) all the blame on himself, and thereby her husband released. He popped up then immediately under. Kuipers-Rietberg was transferred to the House of detention in Arnhem, whence they on 25 August 1944 was transported to the penal camp Vught. By the advance of the allies and the panic of 'Dolle Dinsdagwas made master of the occupying forces, "this camp early september cleared. With one of the last transports Kuipers-Rietberg was on 7 september 1944 transported to Ravensbrück concentration camp. There she became frowned upon for the Arbeitseinsatz and placed in the turn command. Later she became "Tischalteste". By being in that situation so the food day divided among the women for the war industry in the Siemens factory had to work, she could come to mean a lot for them. Also by her joyousness Kuipers-Rietberg, was generated under the horrific circumstances, her fellow prisoners to support and comfort. Her resistance girlfriend Minnie Jolinkcommemorated in its hour of death and accompanied them, as well as a time later also Betsie ten Boom amid the fellow inmates. Kuipers-Rietberg itself became ill at the end of October. She died on 27 december1944, possibly due to typhoid fever or a lung infection. ==Legacy<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Plaque to Noor Winterswijk<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">"Noor" alias Helena Kuipers-Rietberg is one of the great women of Dutch (resistance) history. In her hometown, she is commemorated in several ways. On 4 May 1955, a statue, which for her was founded next to the Town Hall of Winterswijk, unveiled by Princess Wilhelmina . The image consists of a young woman who protects a young deer.The deer is a symbol of the pursued in the war years. There is also a poem read:


 * 't faith has her carried,
 * Love gave her strength,
 * The hope did not let up either,
 * Was brought to salvation.

<p lang="en" len="377" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1946 became to her posthumously awarded the Resistance Cross .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The square around the Town Hall today bears her name and at her old House is a plaque made. This can be found on the Willinkstraat in Winterswijk.

<p lang="en" len="418" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">RIBBON-trainset 41 of the carriers company Syntus is named after her.