Hannie Schaft — Dutch Resistance Hero

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Hannie Schaft, the “girl with the red hair,” was a university student when Nazi Germany occupied the neutral Netherlands in 1940. Over the next five years she risked everything — her education, her safety, her family, and her life — in order to shelter her Jewish friends and become, along with her young comrades, the Oversteegen sisters, one of the Most Wanted resistance fighters in the country. 

Join author Buzzy Jackson and interviewer Felix Pfeifle to explore the little known story of Hannie Schaft, how the Netherlands became, statistically, the most dangerous place for Jews in western Europe during the Second World War, and the lengths these Dutch heroes went to in order to resist fascism and the Holocaust.

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Buzzy Jackson is the award-winning author of three books of nonfiction and a novel, To Die Beautiful, about Hannie Schaft, which was published in May of 2023 by Dutton. A historian by training, Buzzy holds a PhD in History from UC Berkeley and has taught at UC Berkeley and at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A recent Writer-in-Residence at the Edith Wharton writing residency in Lenox, Massachusetts, she is also a member of the National Book Critics’ Circle. Buzzy grew up in the mountains of California and Montana and now lives in Boulder, Colorado. 

Felix Etienne-Edouard Pfeifle is an architectural designer with considerable expertise in World War II. He graduated cum laude from UC-Berkeley and was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Vienna. In 2005 he founded the interdisciplinary architectural design firm The Felix Effect, whose portfolio spans a wide range of connoisseur-level projects. He has taught at the New School for Social Research and served as Board President of the Fulbright Association (Los Angeles) and the Los Angeles Bach Festival. He lives in Washington, DC.

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