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Kirstine Fiil
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.
Biography.
Biography Early life.
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
brother-in-law and five other members of the Hvidsten group were executed in Ryvangen.
On 15 July 1944 De frie Danske reported on the executions, her two-year prison sentence and the life sentence of her sister Kirstine and compared her father to Svend Gønge and Niels Ebbesen.
Fiil and her sister were imprisoned separately in Germany, but she was soon after pardoned and returned to Denmark.
In April 1945 Fiil was therefore able to join her mother in receiving her older sister in the Danish border town