Truus Menger-Oversteegen (shown in the middle, with her sister Freddie left) was a Dutch artist and anti-fascist freedom fighter born on this day in 1923. Oversteegen joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance at fourteen years old and quickly became an armed assassin of Nazi soldiers along with her sister Freddie Oversteegen and another young woman named Hannie Schaft. Together, the trio lured (on at least one occasion, seduced), ambushed, and killed German Nazis and their Dutch collaborators.

Their other duties in the Haarlem Resistance Group included "bringing Jewish [refugees] to a new hiding place, working in the emergency hospital in Enschede… [and] blowing up the railway line between Ijmuiden and Haarlem", according to Ellis Jonker, an anthropologist who interviewed the sisters. In 1945, Hannie Schaft was arrested and killed by Nazi forces. Truus and Freddie Oversteegen went on to live long lives, however, both dying at the age of 92.