Marion Pritchard

This article is about the Dutch-American World War II Resistance hero. For the early 20th-century fashion journalist, see Marian Pritchard.

Marion Pritchard
Van Binsbergen (Pritchard) in 1944 with Erica Polak, a Jewish baby that she was hiding
Born
Marion Philippina van Binsbergen

(1920-11-07)7 November 1920
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died11 December 2016(2016-12-11) (aged 96)
Washington, D.C., United States
Known forRescuing Dutch Jews during World War II

Marion Philippina Pritchard (née van Binsbergen; 7 November 1920 – 11 December 2016) was a Dutch-American social worker and psychoanalyst, who distinguished herself as a savior of Jews in the Netherlands during the Second World War. Pritchard helped save approximately 150 Dutch Jews, most of them children, throughout the German occupation of the Netherlands. In addition to protecting these people’s lives, she was imprisoned by Nazis, worked in collaboration with the Dutch resistance, and shot dead a known Dutch informer to the Nazis to save Dutch Jewish children.

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