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Anna (Ans) van Dijk (Amsterdam, December 24, 1905 - Weesperkarspel, Jan. 14 1948) was a Dutch collaborator and the only Dutch woman who was sentenced to death and in which the death sentence was carried out because of her betrayal of Jews during World War II.

Ans van Dijk was the daughter of Jewish parents, Aron van Dijk and Kaatje Look. At fourteen she lost her mother and at 34 her father died in a mental institution. She married Bram Querido in 1927 and in November 1940 was officially divorced. After her marriage she had a lesbian relationship with Miep Stodel. Stodel fled to Switzerland in 1942.[1]

Van Dijk was the owner of a hat shop called "Maison Evany" in the Nieuwendijk in Amsterdam, but stopped in November 1941 when restrictions were placed on Jews.

The betrayal by Van Dijk actually began with her own betrayal. She herself was hiding on Marco Polo Street. At another address they found two Jewish ladies on the same street. Those ladies were betrayed and told in turn that the hiding place was handed to them by Van Dijk. She was arrested on Easter Sunday 1943 by the SD detective Peter Schaap of the Office of Jewish Affairs of the Amsterdam police. After promising to work for the SD, Van Dijk was released.

At first she operated alone. She was living with a new girlfriend Mies de Regt, who was aware of her efforts for the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), but neither Mies nor her other friends criticized this. Ans later got help from some other Jewish women and they became the engine of this group that hunted Jews.

She pretended to be illegal worker, who could supply hiding places and false identity. Her house on the Jekerstraat 46-2 in Amsterdam Rivierenbuurt served as a trap, where many of its victims in the Security Service were arrested, including her own brother and his family. Of these people only a few survived.

On June 20, 1945 she was arrested in the house of Mies de Regt in Rotterdam. On February 24, 1947 she was brought to the Special Court in Amsterdam. The court sentenced her to death because of the betrayal of about 700 (according to Van Dijk 100) hiding places. As a defense she claimed only to have acted out of self-preservation, and she appealed the conviction, but on September 24, 1947 the Special Court of Appeals confirmed her punishment. Her request for pardon was rejected.

In January 1948 she was executed at Fort Bijlmer in the then municipality Weesperkarspel (now the Bijlmermeer municipality of Amsterdam) by a firing squad. The night before her execution she had been baptized and joined the Roman Catholic Church.

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Further reading

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References

  1. ^ http://nrcboeken.vorige.nrc.nl/recensie/een-leven-vol-verraad Koos Green:.. If victims become perpetrators
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