Semon Strobos tells the impressive story of his mother, Tina Strobos. This brave medical student, together with her mother, started carrying out numerous resistance activities immediately after the invasion. She forged identity cards, smuggled radios, hid stolen German weapons and sheltered more than a hundred people in hiding. After she and her fellow students refused to sign the declaration of loyalty to Hitler, they organized secret weekly meetings at her home. The centre of all these activities was their home at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 282. Above what is now Theater De Richel,  a specially built attic room concealed people in hiding. Tina Strobos was arrested several times but never convicted. She used her charm to stay out of the occupiers’ hands.

Featured image: Tina Strobos with her fiancé Abraham Pais and her mother Marie Schotte, 1941.