After completing her studies at the Stedelijk Gymnasium , she enrolled as a biology major in 1937 at Utrecht University , a state-sponsored academic institution in the Netherlands . It was during this period of her life that she and her family began to hear stories regarding the increase of Antisemitism in Germany . These stories were confirmed by her brother in 1938 . An employee of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines who was in Germany for a work assignment in November of that year , he had been an eyewitness to the violence perpetrated against Jewish people by supporters of Adolf Hitler as part of Kristallnacht , a pogrom which took place from November 9 – 10 , during which the Sturmabteilung ( the German paramilitary force known more commonly as the " SA " ) destroyed synagogues and Jewish-owned stores and other buildings , murdered more than 90 Jewish people , and deported 30,000 Jewish men to Nazi concentration camps . That same year , Hetty Voûte became a member of the Red Cross
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