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A Salute To Tina Strobos, Who Saved More Than 100 Jews From The Nazis YM”S


The following is via the NY Daily News:

The Nazis failed in their horrific attempt to obliterate a people not only because of Allied military power — but because of the moral might of millions of good people.

One died Monday.

Her name was Dr. Tina Strobos. As a young medical student in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam — a stone’s throw from where the Gestapo captured Anne Frank — she and her mother sheltered, fed and hid more than 100 Jews.

Hunted people would stay in their boardinghouse for days or weeks at a time. A bell would ring; the refugees would crawl into a hiding place the Stroboses had built in the attic.

It was heroism by a great woman — whose family was atheist — in a time of crisis. She also took radios to members of the resistance, brought ration stamps to Jews hiding on farms and made fake ID cards — without the J stamp that the Germans forced Jews to carry everywhere. The Gestapo interrogated her nine times. She never broke.

Strobos would go on to build an impressive career as a psychiatrist. She helped victims of Hurricane Katrina. She spoke out against torture.

A mother and grandmother, she lived until 91, a longtime resident of Rye,
Westchester County.

In a world with too much darkness and death, she was an angel of life and light.

(Source: NY Daily News)



2 Responses

  1. Ask people who experienced the tragic churban. Even neighbors that they had been friendly with for years turned on them. There weren’t millions of good people – only a small number. Those people were so exceptional because they were a rarity. “Millions of good people!?” – That is an absolute myth.

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