Gudrun Fiil
| Gudrun Fiil | |
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| Born |
Gudrun Margrethe Kjul Kristensen 18 or 19 December 1890 Gødstrup præstegaard, Snejbjerg, Denmark |
| Died | 19 May 1972 (aged 81) |
| Resting place | Spentrup cemetery |
| Other names | Gudrun Margrethe Kjul Kristensen Søvang |
| Occupation | Inn keeper |
| Known for | Member of and widow after a member of the Danish resistance movement |
| Spouse(s) | Marius Fiil (married 1917-1944) |
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| Website | "Modstandsdatabasen" [Resistance Database]. Gudrun Fiil (in Danish). Copenhagen: Nationalmuseet. |
Gudrun Fiil (18 December 1890 – 19 May 1972) was inn keeper at Hvidsten Inn and member of the Danish resistance, whose husband, son and son-in-law were executed by the German occupying power.
Gudrun Fiil was born in Gødstrup præstegaard, Snejbjerg on 18 December 1890 to tenant Kristen Kristensen and 38-year-old Kristine Bolette Kristensen and baptized Gudrun Margrethe Kjul Kristensen in Snejbjerg church on Quinquagesima Sunday the following year. On 29 October 1906 her name was changed to Gudrun Margrethe Kjul Kristensen Søvang.
In 1917 she married Marius Fiil, who in 1918 and 1920 when she gave birth to their two first children Kirstine and Niels was a house proprietor and bicycle dealer.
In 1930 she and her husband lived in Hvidsten Inn with her 72-year-old father-in-law as inn keeper, their son and four daughters and a farm hand, a maid and a manager.
In the autumn of 1932 her oldest daughter was confirmed, at that time she and her husband had taken over the inn.
During the occupation Fill and her family became the center of a resistance group, the Hvidsten group.
With the group she helped the British Special Operations Executive parachute weapons and supplies into Denmark for distribution to the resistance.
In March 1944 the Gestapo made an "incredible number of arrests" including in the region of Randers the "nationally known folklore collector and keeper of Hvidsten inn Marius Fiil", their son Niels, their 17-year-old daughter Gerda, their daughter Kirstine and her husband brewery worker Peter Sørensen.
The arrests left Fiil alone not only with the inn and her youngest daughter Linna who was confirmed 26 March 1944, but also Fiil's infant grandchild Gudrun, whose both parents were incarcerated.
The following month De frie Danske reported on her husband again, that he along with other arrestees from Hvidsten had been transferred from Randers to Vestre Fængsel.
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