Joke Folmer

Johanna Maria "Joke" Folmer (9 July 1923 – 11 December 2022) was a Dutch resistance member during World War II.

[1][2] Shortly after her birth, Folmer moved with her parents to the Dutch East Indies where she lived until the age of 16.

At the time of the 1940 German invasion of the Netherlands she was seventeen years old and attended the lyceum in Zeist.

Folmer was sentenced to death and imprisoned in, among others, the Oranjehotel, the prison in Utrecht and Herzogenbusch concentration camp.

[4] After the war, she and Nel Lind organized reunions in which British and Canadian air force veterans traveled the escape routes from the Netherlands to the Swiss or Spanish borders.