1. Tina Strobos was a Dutch physician and psychiatrist from Amsterdam, known for her resistance work during World War II.
26 Facts About Tina Strobos
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Tina Strobos later emigrated to the United States to study psychiatry under a Fulbright scholarship, and she subsequently settled in New York.
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Tina Strobos built a career as a family psychiatrist, receiving the Elizabeth Blackwell Medal in 1998 for her medical work, and finally retired from active practice in 2009.
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In 1989, Tina Strobos was honored as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for her rescue work.
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Tina Strobos was born Tineke Buchter on May 19,1920, in Amsterdam.
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Tina Strobos began her rescue work by hiding her best friend, a Jewish girl named Tirtsah Van Amerongen.
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Tina Strobos kept the painting well into her old age.
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The Tina Strobos residence was only a ten-minute walk away from Anne Frank's hiding place at 263 Prinsengracht, Amsterdam.
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When Tina Strobos heard the news, she found the Gestapo official in charge and persuaded him to let Tirtsah and Jeanne go free, but she could not do the same for Lion.
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Tina Strobos had in her possession a letter from well-known physicist Niels Bohr, who had previously invited Pais to study with him in Denmark.
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Tina Strobos took this letter directly to a high-ranking German official and asked him to free Pais, describing him as "a young genius in physics" who would go on to do great things.
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At the beginning of her work for the Dutch resistance, Tina Strobos smuggled weapons, radios, and explosives, traveling up to fifty miles with the contraband hidden in her bicycle basket.
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Tina Strobos brought news and ration stamps to Jews hiding on farms outside the city, as well as radios and firearms for the Dutch resistance.
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Sometimes, Tina Strobos hid large boxes of guns in her house.
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Tina Strobos worked with the less militant Landelyke Organizatie to shelter refugees and forge passports.
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Tina Strobos sometimes resorted to other measures to get the papers she needed: Strobos asked pickpockets to steal identity cards from travelers at train stations, and in 1941, she stole passports from the coat pockets of guests at her aunt's funeral.
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Tina Strobos kept this radio despite the Germans declaring a death penalty for any Dutch citizen guilty of hiding radio equipment.
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Tina Strobos sometimes offered her house as a meeting place for underground medical classes, hosting up to eighteen students every week.
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Tina Strobos was taking her pharmacology exam at her professor's house in May 1945 and was interrupted when the Canadian Army arrived to liberate the Netherlands officially, and everyone raced outside to watch the tanks and soldiers come through the city gates.
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Tina Strobos studied child psychiatry with the support of a Fulbright scholarship.
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Tina Strobos built a career as a family psychiatrist, with a special focus on working with the mentally impaired.
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Tina Strobos received the Elizabeth Blackwell Medal for her work as a medical professional in 1998, and finally retired from active practice in 2009.
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In 2009, Tina Strobos was honored for her rescue work by the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center of New York City.
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Tina Strobos had two sons and one daughter from her first marriage, and two stepchildren from her second marriage.
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At the time of her death, Tina Strobos had seven grandchildren and two step-grandchildren.
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Tina Strobos died of cancer, aged 91, on February 27,2012, in Rye, New York.