Tina Strobes (Heroes)

Tina wasn´t even 20 years old when the Nazi invaded Holland in May, 1940. She was living with her mother and her maid in their large, comfortable, Amsterdam home and just began her medical school studies. Several years later she decided to become a psychiatrist that is what she does in the United States today. We started helping right after the invasion. A friend of my parents, Henry Polack, was famous labor leader and newspaper columnist. As he was well known he was afraid he would be arrested. He felt like he needed to go into hiding. So my mother and I were already into action. We thought it would be safer for him to live in my grandmother´s house. She had an extra room and because she was 80 would be suspicious. We invented she would be lending her room to a stranger to live. She helped a lot of people and refugees after married when she was old. Another time we helped was another famous person Johan Brouwer. My mother admired him and right away gave him shelter for a couple of months. After they invited me to join their group ]\the B.S. or Binnenlandse Strydkrachten. After a long time I didn´t want to obey the rules if i did i would have died. He asked me to publish a poem against Hitler and i said " I will not obey this order." He aswered angrily "Then who doesn't obey the rules gets out of the group" and i got out but one time or two they would ask me to do a job or hide guns. I never told my mom i was frightened to death because she would be too.

By:Ana Clara