Gerda Søvang Fiil was a convicted member of the Danish resistance, whose father and brother were executed by the German occupying power.
Background
Gerda Søvang Fiil was born in Hvidsten on 30 January 1927 as the fourth of five children to proprietor Marius Fiil and wife Gudrun Fiil and baptized 28 March in Gassum church with her grandfather inn keeper in Hvidsten Niels Pedersen as godfather.
Career
She was confirmed Palm Sunday in Gassum church in 1941, while living in Hvidsten with her family. During the later stage of the occupation the family and other locals formed 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.
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 sentenced Fiil to two years in a juvenile prison. The following inquests showed that they had been executed with gunshot wounds to the chest.
On 10 July 1945 her executed family members and the five other executed group members were cremated at Bispebjerg Cemetery. They are both buried in Spentrup cemetery.
In the 2012 Danish drama film Hvidsten Gruppen (This Life) Gerda Fiil is portrayed by Laura Winther Møller.
Membership
On 29 June 1944 her father, brother and brother-in-law and five other members of the Hvidsten group were executed in Ryvangen. The remains of her brother-in-law and the five other executed members of the group were found in the same area three days later.