Date of birth:

February 9th, 1922 (Dordrecht / Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

October 1st, 2000 (Warnsveld / Gelderland, the Netherlands)

Nationality:

Dutch

Lenie Dicke, under her cover name Lize, was mainly active as a courier within the resistance in Dordrecht. As a member of the ‘Beinema Groep’, she worked on the regional edition of Trouw and transported weapons, voucher cards and messages for the underground.

On 3 January 1945, when her parental home on Prinsenstraat was raided, she was arrested and imprisoned in the Dordrecht Detention Centre on Doelstraat. She managed to eat another incriminating address book there and was harshly interrogated.

Because she knew many names from the Dordrecht resistance, they decided to free her from prison. Two attempts were called off at the last minute but on 8 January the time had come. It had snowed heavily earlier that night and false trails were laid to deceive the Germans. A number of resistance fighters, led by commander of the BS Jacobus ‘Michiel’ Beekman, entered the prison disguised as German soldiers and managed to free Lenie Dicke. However, shots were fired during the action as a result of which one German died and two others were wounded.

The resistance fighters and Lenie managed to get away but the Germans retaliated. A few days later, the Dicke family's house was personally set on fire by the Ortskommandant and in the presence of the NSB mayor and the contents looted. Lenie went into hiding in Alblasserwaard and awaited the end of the war there.

At the Essenhof cemetery in Dordrecht, where she is also buried, the Lenie Dicke Path is named after her.

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