Selma van de Perre, a Jewish Dutch resistance fighter who risked her life to oppose Nazi occupation during World War II, has died at the age of 103. As a young woman, she evaded deportation by using false identities and joined the resistance, delivering funds, forged documents, and secret messages, even infiltrating Nazi headquarters in Paris. Captured in 1944, she survived the concentration camps of Herzogenbusch and Ravensbrück, enduring harsh conditions until her liberation by the Swedish Red Cross. After the war, she settled in England, became a teacher and journalist, and continued to share her story, receiving the Resistance Memorial Cross and inspiring many with her courage and resilience. In her memoir, she reflected on the extraordinary bravery of ordinary people during the war and maintained a spirit of forgiveness without bitterness toward the German people.
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