Kirstine Fiil
| Kirstine Fiil | |
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Kirstine Nicoline Søvang Fiil 23 August 1918 Hvidsten, Denmark |
| Died | 25 August 1983 (aged 65) Hvidsten, Denmark |
| Resting place | Gassum cemetery |
| Occupation | House wife, inn keeper |
| Known for | Convicted member of the Danish resistance movement |
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| Website | "Modstandsdatabasen" [Resistance Database]. Kirstine Fiil (in Danish). Copenhagen: Nationalmuseet. |
Kirstine Fiil (23 August 1918 – 25 August 1983) was a convicted member of the Danish resistance as part of the Hvidsten Group, whose husband, father and brother were executed by the German occupying power.
Kirstine Fiil was born in Hvidsten on 23 August 1918 as the first of five children to proprietor Marius Fiil and 27-year-old wife Gudrun Fiil and baptized Kirstine Nicoline Søvang Fiil in Gassum church on the 17th Sunday after Trinity with her grandfather inn keeper in Hvidsten Niels Pedersen as godfather.
In 1930 she lived in Hvidsten Inn with her 72-year-old grandfather as inn keeper, her parents, younger brother and three sisters and a farm hand, a maid and a manager. She was confirmed in Gassum church in 1932 on the 19th Sunday after Trinity, while living in Hvidsten with her parents who at that time had taken over the inn where her father was born. On 25 April 1939 in Gassum church she married the four years older Peder Bergenhammer Sørensen as housekeeper in Gassum with her father as best man.
In 1942 on her birthday she gave birth in Hvidsten to a girl, who on the 19th Sunday after Trinity was baptized Gudrun Fiil Sørensen Møller in Gassum church. Later after her parents had taken over the inn, she worked there and became part of the resistance group named after it. 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 herself, her father the "nationally known folklore collector and keeper of Hvidsten inn Marius Fiil", her husband Peter Sørensen, her brother Niels Fiil and her 17-year-old sister Gerda, and Fiil's infant daughter was thus separated from both parents. The following month De frie Danske reported on her father again, that he along with other arrestees from Hvidsten had been transferred from Randers to Vestre Fængsel. In June 1944 a court martial gave Fiil a death sentence but then commuted it to life imprisonment. On 29 June 1944 her father, husband and brother and five other members of the Hvidsten group were executed in Ryvangen.
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