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Lucia Raadschelders is a Dutch national who worked at the Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland (AABN/ Dutch Anti Apartheid Movement) from 1979 to 1985. After resigning from the Dutch AAM she was recruited to work for the African National Congress (ANC) in Swaziland to run a safe house. She lived in Swaziland from 1986 until she had to to return to the Netherlands in mid-1988. She was then recruited to work with the ANC in Zambia as part of Operation Vula from late-1988 onwards.
After the unbanning of the ANC she returned to the Netherlands and came to live in South Africa towards the end of 1993. She has worked for several NGO's in South Africa and is currently employed as an archivist at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.
Her small collection mainly contains materials from the Dutch AAM and Operation Vula.