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Frieda Belinfante [May 10, 1904 - April 26, 1995]

…from the age of sixteen, Frieda was openly lesbian. In the late 1930s, Frieda began her own chamber orchestra which she conducted for two seasons. After the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, Frieda discontinued her orchestra. She joined the gay resistance group called the CKC and worked falsifying identity cards and arranging hiding places for Jews and others sought by the Nazis. Together with William Arondeus, she participated in the planning of the destruction of the Amsterdam Population Registry on March 27, 1943. That July the Nazis executed twelve others who had participated in the attack. In December, Belinfante escaped to Switzerland via Belgium and France. After the war, she returned briefly to Amsterdam and then immigrated to the United States in 1947 and became a symphony conductor in Hollywood.

Seated portrait, after her return to the Netherlands from the refugee camp in Switzerland.
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Frieda Belinfante sits at a table with her partner in their home at Hendrik Jacobszstraat in Amsterdam. Henriette Bosmans, a well-known composer and pianist, was the partner of Frieda Belinfante for seven years.
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Portrait of Frieda Belinfante, reportedly dressed in men’s clothing to disguise herself from Nazi informers.
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Frieda Belinfante [far right] poses with three friends before the war.
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