The Girl with the Red Hair

The Girl With the Red Hair
AuthorTheun de Vries
LanguageDutch
PublisherQuerido
Publication date
1956
ISBN978-9-021-41198-9

The Girl With the Red Hair (original title in Dutch: Het meisje met het rode haar) is a popular biographical novel by Dutch author Theun de Vries (1907–2005).[1] It was first published in 1956, and has been reprinted many times.[2][3]

The Girl with the Red Hair is based on the life story of Dutch World War 2 resistance fighter Hannie Schaft.[4]

In 1981, it was adapted into an acclaimed 1981 film with the same title.

  1. ^ "Het meisje met het rode haar". Singel Uitgeverijen (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  2. ^ Atwood, Kathryn J. (2011). Women heroes of World War II: 26 stories of espionage, sabotage, resistance, and rescue. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-1-55652-961-0. OCLC 617445780.
  3. ^ Brady, Tim (2021). Three ordinary girls: the remarkable story of three Dutch teenagers who became spies, saboteurs, Nazi assassins--and WWII heroes. New York, NY: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-8065-4038-2.
  4. ^ Henkes, Barbara (2020). Negotiating racial politics in the family: transnational histories touched by National Socialism and Apartheid. Egodocuments and history series. Leiden; Boston: Brill. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-90-04-40160-0.