various concentration camps (including Amersfoort, Herzogenbusch, and Sachsenhausen) before dying in Buchenwald. Her son Frans was transferred from Herzogenbusch to Dachau but survived. After the war, Boissevain-van Lennep belonged to a women's group that wanted to commemorate the postwar rebuilding of the Netherlands. Mies came up with the idea for a garment she termed the national liberation skirt (nationale feestrok: a 'feestrok' is a celebration or party skirt). Also known as 'liberation skirts' (bevrijdingsrok), these skirts were handmade of colorful patchwork with embroidery. References 1896 births 1965 deaths Resistance members from Amsterdam Herzogenbusch concentration camp survivors Ravensbrück concentration camp survivors Mies Dutch feminists