Tina Strobos
- Dutch Student
- Allowed more than 100 Jews to hide on the top floor of her house in Rye, New York
- Known to some as "the ultimate rescuer"
- Recognized as "righteous amount the nations"
- Did not seek personal reward
- Refused to sign an oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler
- Member of the underground resistance movement
- Allowed more than 100 Jews to hide on the top floor of her house in Rye, New York
- Known to some as "the ultimate rescuer"
- Recognized as "righteous amount the nations"
- Did not seek personal reward
- Refused to sign an oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler
- Member of the underground resistance movement
Varian Fry
- Known as "The American Schindler"
- Saved 1,200 Jews
- Helped many great writers, artists, and thinkers escape the Nazis torment in which he made a list of 200 of the brightest artists, scientists, and doctors
- had contacts in the French Resistance and Corsican mob
- "I remembered what I had seen in Germany. I knew what would happen to the refugees if the Gestapo got hold of them...It was my duty to help them...Friends warned me of the danger. They said I was a fool to go. I, too, could be walking into the trap. I might never come back alive."
- Saved 1,200 Jews
- Helped many great writers, artists, and thinkers escape the Nazis torment in which he made a list of 200 of the brightest artists, scientists, and doctors
- had contacts in the French Resistance and Corsican mob
- "I remembered what I had seen in Germany. I knew what would happen to the refugees if the Gestapo got hold of them...It was my duty to help them...Friends warned me of the danger. They said I was a fool to go. I, too, could be walking into the trap. I might never come back alive."