Part 2: Post-war chronology

 

1945 July: Willem is called to tribunal

1945 July: Kees is arrested on a treason charge

1948 May: Kieks and Archie get married and move to Scotland

1962: Kieks visits a psychiatrist

1976: Kieks sees the German guard, now a teacher, on the Isle of Eigg

1979: The Okma family is recognised by Yad Vashem

1987: Kieks receives a Dutch pension for her Resistance work

1992: Kieks first tells her family about what happened during the war

1997: Kieks gives manuscript to lawyer to investigate publication

2010: Kieks’ lawyer discusses rejection of the manuscript with Andrew

2012 January: Kieks celebrates her 90th birthday, and a few details of her exploits are published by the local press

2015:Kees’s family relates new information about Kees and Kieks’ wartime engagement and Kees’s post-war trial