VI.) The trap....
Part of Anda's underground activities was providing help and shelter for allied
aircraft pilots, hiding for the Nazis after being shot down over Holland and elsewhere.
An extremely dirty counter-spy trick of the Nazis was employing pseudo-Allied pilots
asking for shelter and medical assistance among the Dutch rural population. However
this miserably coward ploy unfortunately sometimes worked rather effectively.
Anyway, this trap has caused Anda's downfall. ( Probably by a German called Karel Mans, alias Overeem, alias 'de Vuurtoren')
On the pitch-black and cold midwinter night on December 27, 1944 at 7:15 p.m. there was the dreadful " knock on the door" at Hendriks' house. Four(!) impudent heavily armed Nazi secret police (S.D.) officers enter. The house was ransacked, but Anda was not home.... When Anda arrived - it was 8 p.m. - four rifled guns pointed at her. She was brutally frisked for arms - as if a conscientious objector of vivisection ever would carry a gun ....- because these stupid gunmen really believed that " terror" could only be fought against with terror...
From distance they showed her a document, (perhaps a false identity card?).
Anda seems to have recognized it instantly, for she made a jump like a cat to grasp it
out of their hands. A vase fell in splinters, she ran to the toilet, locked her self in, and
eat as fast as she could a peace of paper, witch she had with her, with some addresses on it. (Just before she arrived she had brought away a four-year-old Jewish girl to one address! ) She let the water ran in the toilet just before the Nazi's could open the door. Three men overpowered her, and told her to stay calme "Katjang".
She was handcuffed, and her strong arms were twisted until she collapsed. Then they
Neighbours took care of the two Hendriks' children; Ger and Drude.
VII). In prison.
The next day, the first, (of many), interrogation was done in the presence of 13(!)
persons. Lehnhoff, Kindel, Kaper, Schaap, Sleijfer, Hanna and Jenny (female guards),
Moser, Karola Muller (typist), M.Vonk, H.Bouman, Drost and van Bruggen.
The other terrible female guard; Madeleine, was not there. She was the worst female
guard with a cold hart of "stone".
After this 'interrogation' , were she was beaten up by rubber sticks, the Nazis
became not wiser at all. She asked for a warmer cell, because she was totally cold... Poor Anda did not yet know her hangmen: In her naivete and trust of people she even gave them a weapon against her in their bloody hands: The cold.....
(Remember, she came from the tropics, and that she had 25% tropical blood!)
So she was told "If you feel that cold, we shall put you in the coldest cell we possess".
And so it was done, on bare feet!
( The Hendriks' couple was imprisoned simultaneously; Mrs.Hendriks was
fortunately released after 5 1/2 weeks; her husband however was on March 16, 1945
put on transport to a concentration camp.
When he left the prison that day he called Anda' s name.....
She answered with a scream!!!
He survived, and returned home May 11, 1945.
(Five days after the total liberation by the allied armies.)
