A statue of the late Geertruida Wijsmuller who was known as “Aunt Truus,” the non-Jewish Dutch woman who saved thousands of Jewish children by getting them out of Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Austria, will be unveiled at Bach Square in Amsterdam Dec. 11. Mrs. Wijsmuller died last August at the age of 82. Bach Square, where many German Jewish refugees settled in the 1930s, was chosen as the place for the statue because it was there that during the Nazi occupation of Holland that Mrs. Wijsmuller arranged to meet with Jews who needed help.
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