XIII). Epilogue.
On a Saturday, august 23, 1945 an immense crowd attended Anda's funeral in
the Northern Cemetery in the city of Groningen.
Here the people named her THE HEROINE OF GRONINGEN.
Because the slowly, in cold blood executed martyr's murder of an innocent girl who
sacrificed herself so heroically in order to be of help for people in distress, simply
mandated this.
The organization of the entire ceremony, the purchase of her grave, and the financing
of almost everything was entirely privately a contribution of detective Jan Kerkhof.
He pertinently refused to be repaid by members of Anda's family.
A short, but in its simplicity very moving, ceremony took place on Saturday
Anda's grave.
And Mr. Poort cited some of Anda's essays; in one of them, (Christmas 1943) she writes:
" Let us consider in the light of our last remaining piece of candle, the intentions of Christ who dared to persevere no twithstanding all and everything".
And: " Not one single purpose can hallow cruel or unfair means. We must continue to
follow our own proper road, be straightforward guided by nothing but our conscience".
With permission of her surviving brothers and sisters, Anda' s mortal remains were
- in 1967 - moved to the very impressive National Honour Cemetery in Loenen at North
of Arnhem.
That's where she rests now.
I quote now of Mr. Hendrik's words, spoken that day at Anda's grave:
"Am I conceited if I compare her life and passion with that of Christ's ?
The road over which she had to carry her Cross was long, very long, but it was
achieved in a happy mood.
There has been destroyed a very rare flower, so beautifully sculptured and
collared and supplied with honey by the hand of the Creator.
Anda is no more.
Help in order to help, without any selfishness in the background, that's true
socialism. That was Anda's spirit. Only this is the key to a better society".
After all these words I feel - as narrator of Her Story -
it is not presumptuous to finish with:
