Elisabeth Hammel, also known as Lies, was an intelligent and exceptionally charismatic woman. As the eldest of six children, she cared for her younger brothers and sisters (all but one of whom died in the war) from an early age. They always looked at her as a second mother.
In 1943 Elisabeth Duis-Hammel went into hiding. Independently of her husband, Meijer Duis, she rented a small room in the we…