Meintje ‘Mina’ Koe married Abraham Benjamin de Vries in October 1931. Believing that they were not running any great risk, the couple at first decided not to go into hiding. They later changed their minds, and Meintje Koe then bleached her hair. With the help of a railway employee, the two of them went into hiding in a railway shed in Arnhem. In August 1942, when a Jewish man escaped the Enkhuizen police station following his arrest, the police were ordered to organize a manhunt, in the course of which Abraham de Vries and Meintje Koe were discovered. Meintje Koe was first sent to the house of detention on the Amstelveenscheweg in Amsterdam and ended up at Westerbork concentration camp in October 1942. Her son-in-law received word that she was staying in shed no. 83 and wanted him to send her clothes. Meintje was immediately deported to Auschwitz, however.
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