Righteous Among The Nations

Righteous Among The Nations                                                                                                                                                                                                              From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  

                                                                                                                                                                                           Marion Philippina Pritchard (née van Binsbergen; 7 November 1920 – 11 December 2016 was a Dutch-American social worker and psychoanalyst, who distinguished herself as a saviour of Jews in the Netherlands during the Second World War. Pritchard helped save approximately 150 Dutch Jews, most of them children, throughout the German occupation of the Netherlands. In addition to protecting these peoples lives, she was imprisoned by Nazis, worked in collaboration with the Dutch resistance, and shot dead a known Dutch informer to the Nazis to save Dutch Jewish children.