Anna Smitshuizen (February 1751 in Alkmaar – 29 June 1775 in Amsterdam), was a Dutch prostitute and the victim of a cause célèbre murder.
In 1774 she was working in the brothel of Geertruid van Kesteren (aka Zwarte Trui) on Oudezijds Achterburgwal, part of Amsterdam's De Wallen red-light district.
The brothel women's medical needs were attended by an ex-ship's doctor, Johannes Bartholomeus Ferdinandus van Goch.
[1] A scaffold was erected in front of the Town Hall and a large crowd gathered in Dam Square to see van Goch executed on the 4 April.
[1] Ockers responded with Waarachtig bericht, meerendeels getrokken uit echte brieven en geschriften van den thans op de Gevangen-Poort geconfineerde J.B.F.
Written to his family and close friends, a business-like story, of all the disastrous that ... has happened; in addition to a true description of ... Anna Smitshuizen).