When a Dutch Jewish woman taught SS officers how to dance Roosje Glaser would pose for photos with Nazi soldiers in occupied Holland. The defiant spirit that helped her survive Auschwitz is ...

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When a Dutch Jewish woman taught SS officers how to dance Roosje Glaser’s flamboyant defiance got her shipped to Auschwitz. But once there, that same trait was key to her extraordinary survival.

It was a common reaction in a country where Nazis and their local collaborators killed 75 percent of the pre-Holocaust Jewish population of 140,000 – the highest death rate in occupied Western ...

When a Dutch Jewish woman taught SS officers how to dance. Even before Nazi racial laws turned her into a wanted person in her native Netherlands, Roosje Glaser had limited patience for rules.