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• Zij is geboren op 21 juni 1896 in Tilburg, NB Netherlands.Bron 1
• Beroep: Bookkeeper.
• Geloof: Roman Catholic.
• Woonachtig in het jaar 1983: Eindhoven, NB Netherlands.
• Zij is overleden op 13 mei 1984 in Eindhoven, NB Netherlands, zij was toen 87 jaar oud.Bron 1

  Oorzaak: Prolonged illness

• Een kind van Arnold Francois Joseph Schijns en Louisa Gerardina Broekhans
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 8 mei 2023.

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Marie (Miet) Francoise Louise Joseph Schijns was born on 21 June 1896 in Tilburg. Miet, like her other sisters, remained unmarried. Miet lived with her older sister Net in the parental home at Wilhelminapark 34. Father Schijns started a company in machines and accessories there when he came to Tilburg from Verviers (Belgium) at the end of the nineteenth century.

In the 1920s, Miet probably studied at the RK courses in Tilburg. She was active for the Sint Leonardus student association. Her identity card states that she was an accountant.

After the death of her brother Antoine (1931), Miet did not write again until the end of 1932. She then leaves with her sister Net for Rome and Assisi ·Äúto experience the solemn profession of Therese·Äù. In the meantime, Mussolini's fascism has made its appearance in Italy. In the years that followed, Schijns mainly continued to write about everyday things. She writes little about politics and the situation in the world. That changes when the threat of war increases in 1939. On 31 August 1939, the day before the German invasion of Poland, she wrote: ·ÄúThe situation does not look good, you just listen to the radio and get all kinds of messages, which in themselves do not mean much, but you get the feeling that thunderclouds are piling up on all sides.·Äù How bad the situation is becomes apparent the next day: ·ÄúSince this morning the German troops have entered Poland and there is fighting. Hitler does claim that there is no war, but I would like to know what it is. The Netherlands has been in a state of war since today, but you still believe that something will still be found to avert that misery from Europe.·Äù Unfortunately that is not the case.

It was decided in the Schijns home to live as frugally as possible. Miet managed to scrape together something every time. This involved regular black market shopping and smuggling. What you can now buy outside distribution only escapes the German Wehrmacht, so we do that with pleasure," Miet writes. The Schijns family also keep chickens (which they do not officially give up) and cherries and gooseberries are picked in the garden. These are canned for winter and later also sold or given away. Schijns responds to the scarcity with humour: "At least I am doing with the time conditions, I am thirty pounds lighter now."

In November 1941, Miet managed to pick up a batch of Jerusalem apples: "I almost believe I have already earned the death penalty again this morning, at least I hammered sacks of potatoes along two sides, so now I don't have to worry much about potatoes this winter." Although Miet manages to get food reasonably well, she too notes in 1943, "Because of the lack of fat in the food, you become increasingly cold." She writes that people are very afraid of a cold winter, especially since many people are already down to their last coal.

The sisters regularly cycle to a farmer in 's Gravenmoer, to pick up vegetables. Once there, they get hot milk with sugar, a real treat in those days. Vegetables are also exchanged for textiles instead of money.

After the war, Miet continued to write in her diary for a few more years. In July 1947, she suddenly stops writing for an unknown reason. She writes a few times before that that she feels tired, and that the hustle and bustle sometimes weighs her down. In 1977, Miet and Net Schijns moved to Indigolaan 96b, Tilburg. In 1981, Net dies at the age of 87. Miet moves to Eindhoven in 1983. There, after being ill for a long time, she died on 13 May 1984, aged 88. Her prayer card describes her as a central personality, a balanced woman, who understood life and lived it joyfully, "radiating warmth and security around her from that fullness. A woman to love".

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