Vrije Groepen Amsterdam

Their activities included distributing falsified identification documents, as well as ration cards and financial support, to Jews and others in hiding (so-called onderduikers) and to members of the resistance movement.

The choice to remain independent was often related to the fact that the LO reported all families hiding Jews and others from the Nazis to the Nationaal Steun Fonds (NSF), an organisation which coordinated the financial support of the Dutch resistance activities.

Fortunately we were not betrayed, or the Germans would have been able to arrest the entire non-affiliated resistance movement in Amsterdam in one fell blow.

"[2] The VGA had a special branch aimed at identifying traitors and helping members who had been arrested, in some cases even attempting to break them free.

[3] In April 2013, a book by Loes Gompes documenting the history of the PP group, one of the organisations in the VGA, was published under the title Fatsoenlijk land: Porgel en Porulan in het verzet.