Hello and welcome to Queerous Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.

My name is Eli.

I'm Irene.

I'm Alice.

And today we're talking about the Dutch cellist, conductor and World War II resistance fighter, Frida Bell Infanta.

I'd like to acknowledge the Bunurang-Bunwarang people of the Kulin Nation,

as the traditional owners of the land on which we record this podcast, and pay respects to their elders past and present. We recognise them as the custodians of an oral history tradition

far older than this podcast. We have some content

warnings before we start this episode. We'll be discussing World War II and the Nazis at length,

including discussion of anti-Semitic policies and pseudoscientific Nazi race laws. Also in connection

with this time period, will mention deportations to concentration camps, bombings, torture and

executions. This episode will also include period typical misogyny, homophobia and internalised

homophobia. It will also contain brief references to the death of a child, death from cancer,

relationships with large age gaps, including one involving a teenager, abortion, threats

of gun violence, suicide, forced drugging, and non-explicit mentions of sex.

If any of that sounds like something that you don't want to listen to, please take care of

yourself and skip this episode.

I also wanted to talk about our sources a little bit.

My major source for this episode was an oral history interview with Frida from 1994.

The interview was conducted on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and it is

available on their website, as is a transcription.

The interview in total is about seven and a half hours long, so it's a wonderful, detailed

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