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The Resume

    (May 19, 1920-February 27, 2012)
    Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Birth name was Tineka Buchter
    Physician and psychiatrist
    During World War II, helped rescue over 100 Jewish refugees
    Had a secret compartment built into the attic of the family home where up to five people could be hidden temporarily until they could be sent to the Dutch countryside or an unoccupied nation
    Named Righteous Among the Nations (1989)

Why she might be annoying:

    During the war, she broke off her engagement to Abraham Pais, a Jewish physicist.
    To forge the papers she needed for Jews to leave the country, she would steal identity cards at social gatherings (including her aunt's funeral), then replace the photo and fingerprints of the original owner with those of a Jewish refugee.
    She also hired pickpockets to steal ID cards from travelers at train stations.
    After learning that Anne Frank's had been only a ten-minute walk from her house, she lamented, 'If I knew they were there, I would have gotten them out of the country.'

Why she might not be annoying:

    Her medical school was closed by the Nazis when she and her classmates refused to sign an oath of loyalty to HItler.
    After Pais was betrayed by an ex-girlfriend and arrested, she convinced a German official to free him by presenting a letter from Niels Bohr inviting Pais to study with him in Denmark as evidence that Pais was 'a young genius' who would go on to do great things.
    She also hid members of the Dutch resistance and smuggled weapons and radios, traveling up to fifty miles with contraband hidden in the basket of her bicycle.
    The Gestapo raided her house eight times without finding the hiding space.
    She was arrested and interrogated nine times by the Gestapo without revealing the whereabouts of any of the refugees she was hiding.
    During one interrogation, she was knocked unconscious when she was thrown against a wall.
    After the war, she studied in London under Anna Freud.
    She said, 'I never believed in God, but I believed in the sacredness of life.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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