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TIL of Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer, a Dutch woman who saved 10,000 Jewish children by charming and bribing Dutch train workers and German officers including a young Adolf Eichmann. Research suggests she saved more Jewish lives than all but Raoul Wallenberg.

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