Betsy Bakker-Nort
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Bertha "Betsy" Bakker-Nort was a Dutch lawyer and politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives for the Free-thinking Democratic League from 1922 to 1942.
Betsy Bakker-Nort in 1922
Bakker-Nort (standing, right) at the International Woman Suffrage Alliance conference held in June 1908 in Amsterdam
Bakker-Nort was one of seven women elected in the 1922 general election.
The Peace Palace in the Hague
International Archives for the Women's Movement was founded in Amsterdam in 1935, as a repository to collect and preserve the cultural heritage of women and make the documents of the movement availabl
Betsy Bakker-Nort
…lost papers, notes, photos, pamphlets, and lectures that Bakker-Nort had kept resurfaced. At some point in the 1930s, she donated her documents to the International Archives for the Women's Movement in Amsterdam. The archives also housed personal documents of, among others, Jacobs and Rosa Manus and documents of women's organizations and journal…
Rosa Manus
Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot
Johanna Naber