Career
In 2009, Strobos was honored for her work by the and Human Rights Education Center of New New York At one time she had a Jewish fiance, Abraham Pais, whom she did not marry and who went on to become a particle physicist. The refugees stayed on the upper floors and attic of the family"s boarding house, where there was also a secret compartment for hiding two or three people.
She hid an Orthodox Jewish couple with five children, and helped others, including artist Martin Monnickendam (1874–1943) She carried news and ration stamps to Jews hiding on farms outside the city, as well as radios and firearms for the Dutch resistance.
She was seized or questioned nine times by the Gestapo. Her grandmother had a radio transmitter hidden in the house which was used to send clandestine messages from the underground to Britain.
After the war, she emigrated to the United States. In a 2009 interview Strobos said "lieutenant"s just the right thing to do.
I believe in heroism, and when you"re young, you want to do dangerous things." In recent decades, she has spoken out against the torture of terrorists, which she said was ineffective as well as cruel.
Tina Strobos died in Rye, New York of cancer, aged 91, on 27 February 2012.