X). Help from outside
Anda' friends and hosts did not sit still.
They tried with all possible and sometimes dangerous (under the circumstances!) means
- very limited indeed - to get justice done to end the tragedy. Most promising for that
purpose, and common practice in situations like this, was bribery. But, as the before
mentioned detective Jan Kerkhof witnessed too, the scoundrels had already robbed and stolen so much that they had become indifferent for bribes. They did not accept any
bribe, or they accepted them without any return....
XI). The last few days.
Mrs. Rookmaker, a pouse of a medical physician, was lodged in Anda's cell,
temporarily, until four days before the end.
She witnessed that Anda was unbelievably high-spirited, and that Anda often tried to
cheer her up when she desperate.
Anda remained hopeful that her friends might be able to get her out, expectedly by
bribes.
While Mr. Hendriks was put on a freight-train to a concentration camp, the very
disreputable N.S.B. - detective; Pieter Schaap, in order of the German "referatleiter"
Robert W. Lehnhoff, and approved by the German "sturmbannfuhrer" B.G.Haase, pulled
Anda out of her cell. It was only about one month before the allied armies would
liberate the North of Holland (16-19 April)
Just a few weeks ahead of that fateful day the retreating German army deliberately, and
entirely unnecessary, burned down all the buildings in the 4000 acre Johannes - Kerkhoven - Polder farm. (situated in the east province of Groningen near Woldendorp).
March 19, 1945 at night:
P.Schaap and v.d.Berg went, with the Dutch traitors; Harm Bouman and Meindert Vonk,
to a quite place south of Groningen, nearby Harenermolen / Glimmen; (Oosterbroekweg).
With Anda also another member of the restistancegroup named: "De Groot" was taken;
On command of Schaap; Vonk shot Anda, and Bouman shot Gerrit from behind in the back of the head.....
There they were buried together in one hole beside the path.
A few days later Bouman shot Dina Aikema. (Dina was "the woman behind" the leader of the restistancegroup!), at the same place.
XII). The end......
On one of the first days of June 1945 Anda's mortal remains were uncovered
beside the Oosterbroekweg on the spot indicated by, the meanwhile captured, N.S.B. -
detective P.Schaap.
He was trield before a war-tribunal and after due process sentenced to death. He was shot by a firing squad, on June 29, 1949 at the same spot where he killed many of his victims. Also Abraham Kaper was shot on the same date as Schaap. Evert Drost was shot on July 28, 1949.
After five years in prison, on July 27, 1950 Lehnhoff was executed at Groningen.
Sleifer was total incapable to look after himself, because of excessive use of alcohol,
his brain was completly damaged. He was locked, and tied up in a center were he died
in 1951.
Kindel died in prison on May 1948 by a tumor in the brain(!)
Vonk and Bouman were put in prison for lifetime,... but were released in 1964.... !
After his release Bouman got a high job; finance director, at a compagny in England...
Vonk remarrried one of the female NSB prison guards, and together they started a
marriage consulting office. He was married before and had 3 children, but his wife divorced him right after the war....
