Also would be an interesting subject of a film.

'Jacoba van Tongeren, Groep 2000 and its 150 members have remained virtually unknown, in part because of Jacoba's modesty and her post-war ill health. But the fact that the group was working entirely in code did not help matters either. Wartime camouflage also worked after the war. Only in 2015, when the book ‘Jacoba van Tongeren and the unknown resistance heroes of Groep 2000', was published, the veil was lifted. It was based on the memoirs, which were discovered by accident by a son of Jacoba van Tongeren's brother. Only then a full picture of the organisation began to emerge: the group had been invisible for 70 years."

"Jacoba van Tongeren" - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacoba_van_Tongeren

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"As a quote often attributed–probably incorrectly–to Edmund Burke says, 'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.'

This is especially relevant as the United States and the world are once again grappling with questions about immigrants, intolerance, and the rise of authoritarian regimes.

I’ll focus on the Netherlands because it was such a paradox. It was a safe haven for Jews fleeing the Inquisition and Hitler and the only occupied country whose workers staged a nationwide strike to protest the treatment of Jews.

Yet, the Netherlands was also the deadliest country outside of Germany for Jews. The fascist government eagerly participated in the Nazi atrocities and even used bounty hunters to capture Jews. By some estimates, the Nazis and Dutch fascists murdered 75 percent of the 140,000 Jews living there before the war.

Amid all that carnage, several heroes arose. One of the most remarkable was largely unknown until her memoirs were published posthumously in 2015."

"Jacoba van Tongeren, codenamed 'Miss 2000,' was the only woman founder and leader of a resistance group in the war. The trained nurse and social worker created the secret Group 2000 in 1941 to aid people in hiding, including Jews, resistance fighters, and young men subject to forced labor in Germany."

~ John Winn Miller

"World War II has many lessons...."

https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article300946434.html