Posted on May 19, 2018
Today’s famous birthday was a really brave, really good woman. Tina Strobos was a part of the Dutch resistance to the Nazis.
Working with her mom and grandma, Strobos rescued more than 100 Jewish refugees. Strobos had a secret attic compartment and a warning bell system so that she could house Jewish people trying to escape the country. She was arrested NINE TIMES by the Nazis - interrogated - pressured to turn in the Jewish folks that relied on her. But she never cracked and never gave up a location of a single Jew. |
| Strobos's portrait was painted by one of the Jewish people who hid at her house. |
In other resistance work, Strobos smuggled guns and radios and forged passports.
Strobos did all of that courageous stuff when she was a young adult and a medical student. After the war, she went on to have a long, full life; she became a psychiatrist, she lived and studied in England and lived and worked in the U.S., she got married and had kids, and so on. She even won a medal for her medical work! But she won more medals and notice for her amazing service on behalf on humanity during World War II.
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| Don't assume that every old woman you meet is just someone's fluffy grandmother. She just might be a Resistance Hero! Strobos (above) lived to be 91 years old. |
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