Sophie Poldermans is the founder of "Sophie's Women of War." She personally knew Truus and Freddie Oversteegen for 20 years and worked closely with them for over a decade as a board member of the National Hannie Schaft Foundation. She is a Dutch women's rights advocate who works as a self-employed author, public speaker, lecturer and consultant on women and war and human rights-related issues from a legal, historical and sociological perspective.
She has degrees in Dutch and International Human Rights and International Criminal Law (University of Amsterdam); Peace and Conflict Studies (UC Berkeley, USA); and Human Rights and Democratization (EIUC, Venice, Italy; Vienna, Austria). She has work experience as a lecturer in Conflict Resolution and International Human Rights and Criminal Law and as an International Coordinator in Amsterdam, and as a guest lecturer in Madrid, Oslo, and Fukuoka.
She is the author of Hannie Schaft. Haar rol in het Nederlandse verzet tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, published in the Netherlands in 2003; and Seducing and Killing Nazis. Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII, published in the USA in 2019. Find out more about her and her work at: https://sophieswomenofwar.com/ and https://seducingandkillingnazis.com/
