The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Nelly Adriana Jeannette de Bode (Nelly)

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Nelly de Bode was born in Heer (today municipality of Maastricht). She lived in Rotterdam and worked at the G.A.B. (municipal employment office). She helped people in hiding. This came to light because she had given her identity card to a Jewish neighbour. [1]
She was arrested and transferred to Vught concentration camp on December 17, 1943, where she was housed in barrack 23b under prisoner number 0679. She became a victim of the "bunker tragedy" [2]: As punishment, she and 73 other women were crammed into cell 115, which was 2.27 meters wide, 4.12 meters long, and 2.35 meters high, for taking action against a traitor, and they had to spend the night there. These punishment cells were called "bunkers." Next morning, ten women were dead, including Nelly. See the list of victims. [3]
They were cremated in the concentration camp and their ashes lie there in the so-called ash pits, which became the grave for many. [4]
The website of concentration camp Vught (German: KZ Herzogenbusch) also tells her story and furthermore offers a bibliography (Dutch). [5][7]

Footnotes

1. tracesofwar.nl Nelly de Bode
2. Wikipedia Bunkerdrama (NL) – Bunkertragödie (DE) – Bunker Tragedy (EN)
3. oorlogsgravenstichting.nl Slachtofferlijst bunkerdrama (victim list)
4. Asputten kamp Vught
5. https://www.nmkampvught.nl/bunkerdrama/ | Deutsch Bunkertragödie | English Bunker Tragedy | Français La tragédie dans le bunker | Português A tragédia no bunker
6. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
7. https://www.nmkampvught.nl/ontdekken/het-verhaal/vermoord-in-vught/bode-nelly-adriana-jeannette-de/