Dutch WWII resistance hero who saved 600 Jewish children dies at age 96
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Dutch WWII resistance hero who saved 600 Jewish children dies at age 96

NL Times  

Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk passed away on Sunday at the age of 96. She was the last living staff member of a kindergarten for Jewish children opposite the Hollandsche Schouwburg in Amsterdam, through which 600 Jewish children were saved from the Nazis, NOS reports. The Hollandsche Schouwburg building, which had been a theater before the war, became a key processing center used to deport Jewish people from the Netherlands. An obituary written for Amsterdam's Jewish Cultural District noted that the terrified children made a lifelong impression on her. Following the war, she helped care for Jewish children who were orphaned in the Netherlands.

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