# How two brave women tricked the Nazis to save Jews

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**Created:** [January 28, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-two-brave-women-tricked-the-nazis-to-save-jews/778382 "2017-01-28T11:05:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-two-brave-women-tricked-the-nazis-to-save-jews/778382/1 "2017-01-28T11:05:43Z")

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BBC story [here](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-38732779).

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> Between 1934 and 1939, two “nervous British spinsters” were regular visitors to the opera houses of Germany and Austria. But the trips also served a greater and more dangerous purpose - saving Jewish lives.  
> Ida and Louise Cook risked their own lives dozens of times by smuggling out valuable goods for those those attempting to flee the Nazi regime, as well as passing on messages and meeting contacts, some of whom were active in the underground movement.

It’s a tale that is worth your time to read.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-two-brave-women-tricked-the-nazis-to-save-jews/778382/2 "2017-01-28T12:00:32Z")

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What a wonderful story of two “Righteous Among the Nations”. There were so many like these two women, whose stories will never be known.

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**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-two-brave-women-tricked-the-nazis-to-save-jews/778382/3 "2017-01-28T15:07:20Z")

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It does make me feel a little happy that the tedious romance stories my Great Aunt used to read by the shelf maybe helped fund people like that. She started reading them in about the right era.

Plus the 60s hippy free love 'n drugs commune a friend used to live in, which was also funded by writing for Mills and Boon, but that’s just funny.