The Nazi Era: Episode 6: Frieda Belinfante

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

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When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940, 36-year-old conductor Frieda Belinfante disbanded her orchestra and dedicated herself to helping others. She forged IDs to save Jews from deportation and joined a resistance group that carried out a daring act of sabotage. Visit our episode webpage for additional resources, archival photos, and a transcript of the episode. For exclusive Making Gay History bonus content, join our Patreon community. ——— RG-50.030.0019, oral history interview with Frieda Belinfante, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. For more information about the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, go here. ——— To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.0	I feel very lonesome if there's nobody around that I can help and love and protect.
1:15.6	And I don't understand people that can only live for themselves. I can't understand it.
1:16.6	Why do you get your happiness?
1:18.6	Why do you get your satisfaction?
1:20.6	What do you do with your life?
1:22.6	What do you do with your strengths?
1:24.6	There must be somebody that needs help. It always is. I've always had
1:31.3	people, whether they were worth it or not. It comes out later. They haven't all been worse
1:37.3	my effort, but the effort was worth the effort. That's the way I look at life.
1:45.0	I'm Eric Marcus, and this is Making Gay History, the Nazi era.
2:07.6	Frida Belinfante was born in Amsterdam in 1904 to a Sephardic Jewish father and a Christian mother.
2:16.6	She was the third of four children and grew up in a secular household.
2:20.3	Her father was a renowned concert pianist who encouraged his children to play music.
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