Lucy Steen van der Schuit

On 6-6-2024, the 80th D-Day in the City hall of Haarlem a very interesting book is presented by Guus Hartendorf about the resistance in Haarlem during the Second World War: 'Bureau Smedestraat 9'.

Guus is author (of more than 30 books), former police-commissioner, former-journalist and historian. To-day Guus visited us with his new book (a valuable gift) in which my grandfather Sjoerd is mentioned. For Guus, as a historian, I think it was also very special to enter the house of resistance fighter Van Beem because he knows and wrote so much about Johan van Beem.

It is my task now to discover details in the letters that are in the iron warbox of my father Arnold van der Schuit, who was a prisoner of war in Torgau/Elbe, Stammlager IXD. Letters which were written from Haarlem to him, prisoner nr. 103184.