Death
After being arrested at a military checkpoint on April 17, 1945, she was interrogated and sentenced to death. After the first volley from a machine pistol, which wounded her, she allegedly cried out "Ik schiet beter!", or in English, I could shoot better. She was buried in a shallow grave, and some of her distinctive hair was visible after the burial protruding from the dirt.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“As for death one gets used to it, even if it’s only other people’s death you get used to.”
—Enid Bagnold (1889–1981)
“The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.”
—J.M. (John Millington)
“Voice number one says,
“I am the leaves. I am the martyred.
Come unto me with death for I am the siren.
I am forty young girls in green shells....””
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)