From 1933 onward , Mrs. Wijsmuller travels to Germany to fetch family members of Jewish acquaintances and brings them safely to the Netherlands . She does so for many years to come . After the '' Kristallnacht '' in 1938 , rumours reach her that Jewish children are wandering unattended in the woods , so she goes to the Dutch-German border to see what was going on there . She smuggles a Yiddish-speaking Polish boy across the frontier under her skirts , and takes him to Amsterdam
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer