A Bronze Statue of Alida Bosshardt (Major Bosshardt) of the Salvation Army, by Peter de Leeuwe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Alida Margaretha Bosshardt (Utrecht, 8 Jun 1913 – Amsterdam, 25 Jun 2007), better known as Major Bosshardt, was a well known officer in The Salvation Army, and more or less the public face of this Christian organization in the Netherlands.[1] Bosshardt became a member of the Salvation Army after visiting one of their meetings when she was 18. Before that, she was not religious. Her father was a converted Roman Catholic, her mother was Dutch Reformed. From 1934 she worked in a children's home in Amsterdam. During the German occupation in the Second World War, Bosshardt took care of the mostly Jewish children who had been brought by their parents to the home.
Size: 5472px × 3648px
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Photo credit: © Jason Bryan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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