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= Mirjam Pinkhof = = (Rescuer) = Mirjam Pinkhof was born in Netherlands, Loosdrencht on Dec. 5th, 1916. Mirjam first started off as a schoolteacher in Holland. Then the Nazis came in and they closed the school down, so Mirjam had to open a secret school at her house. Children went to her house everyday to learn. After the Nazis gained more control, Mirjam became more involved in saving the Jewish children from the Nazis. So Mirjam and Joop ** ** Westerweel gathered Jewish children to transport them out of the country into a safer area where no harm would come to them. **

== Mirjam Pinkhof rescued more than 370 Jewish children. She confronted many obstacles but she found a way around them to get the children to safety. Mirjam saved about 320+ Zionist Young Pioneers out of the 821 Zionists who were living in Holland after 1938. Mirjam was involved in Joop Westerweel's resistance groups. The resistance groups helped children get away from the Nazis. Together they helped smuggle 150 Young Pioneers to France. Of those 150 only 70 reached Spain and Palestine during the war. Of only the 48 teenagers living in Holland in 1942, 34 survived the war or about 70%. In comparison only 20% of Jewish people living in Holland during the war survived the Nazi occupation. == For Multimedia Poster:

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Citations:
==Weber, Ellen :L. "Mirjam Pinkhof Tells Her Story." __Mirjam Pinkhof Tells Her Story__. 24 Oct. 2004. 7 May 2009  ==