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November 16, 2023

The Dutch Woman Who Helped to Rescue Thousands of Jews during the Holocaust

Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer.

Although recognized for her efforts by Yad Vashem in 1966, Geertruida Wijsmuller (who died in 1978 at the age of eighty-two) has received little attention elsewhere for her extraordinary efforts to save German and Dutch Jewish children from the Nazis. Cari Shane writes:

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