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SPEAKER_02: Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica.Historically, women have been told to make themselves smaller, to diminish themselves.Some have used that idea to their advantage, disappearing into new identities.For others, a disappearance was the end of their stories, but the beginning of a new chapter in their legacies.This month, we're talking about disappearing acts.Today, we're talking about a cross-dressing cosmopolitan who led many lives. She was a pilot, a diplomat, and a member of the French resistance, all before she was captured by Nazis and disappeared into a concentration camp.Let's talk about Nadine Wong.Nadine was born in Madrid in 1902.Her father was a Chinese diplomat and her mother was Belgian.
When she was still a child, her family moved to Beijing. Nadine attended a French Catholic school and became fluent in French, English, Spanish, and Chinese.She learned to fence and row and box, and often dressed in men's clothing.According to one story, when Nadine was 19 years old, a Chinese general asked her why she was wearing trousers.She told him it was the only way to ride a horse, swim, row, or box.The general liked that answer so much, he offered her a spot at the Chinese Military Academy. Whether or not that particular story is true, Nadine did join the Academy and became an honorary colonel.Nadine was just getting started.In 1925, she went to Paris and learned how to fly airplanes.By the time she returned to China, she was a trained pilot.
By 1927, she was a Chinese press secretary dispatched on trips to the U.S., Then, a coup in China overthrew its government.Nadine's professional career in China came to a halt, but she didn't let that stop her for long.By 1933, she'd moved permanently to Paris.There, Nadine met Natalie Clifford Barney, a writer and literary salon host with deep connections to the lesbian literary community.Nadine became one of Natalie's lovers, as well as her driver. but it was the beginning of the 1940s and World War II was engulfing Western Europe.Natalie moved to Italy to escape Nazi Germany.Nadine stayed and began working with resistance movements against the invading Nazi forces.In 1944, Nadine was deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp.
The camp was filled with women who the Nazi government wanted to disappear. Like Nadine, many of these women had resisted the Nazi government in some way.And, like Nadine, these women resisted the inhumane conditions Ravensbrück imposed on them.During Christmas, the women were allowed to hold a concert.They huddled outside in the snow and listened to one of the prisoners sing. Her name was Nellie Musée Vos.And before she was arrested for spying on Nazis, she was an opera singer.Her voice was throaty and full.She sang a couple of French carols, and then a voice chimed out from the crowd, sing Madame Butterfly.Nellie knew the opera.
She sang its most popular aria.When Nellie finished, the person who had made the request pushed her way out of the crowd and towards Nellie.It was Nadine.When they were face to face, Nadine gripped Nellie and kissed her once on each cheek. Nellie looked at Nadine and thought, butterfly is right in front of me.With that, Nadine and Nellie fell in love.We know this story from Nellie's journals of her time at Ravensbruck. She wrote down stories of the daily lives of women like herself and Nadine.In doing so, Nellie ensured that even as oppressive forces tried to erase these women from history, their existence persisted.Thanks to these records, the chapter of Nadine's life that began in the darkness of Ravensbrück was committed to paper.
Nadine also met another woman named Rachel and her daughter Irene. When a list began to circulate of names of people who would be rescued by the British, Nadine made sure that Rachel and Irene's names were on the list.In return, Irene promised to name her first daughter after Nadine.And she did, committing Nadine's name to posterity once more.In 1945, Nadine and almost 2,000 other women were rescued from Ravensbrück by the Red Cross. Eventually, Nadine made it to Brussels, where she reunited with her love, Nelly.Nelly and Nadine moved to Venezuela, where they lived together for nearly 20 years.They returned to Belgium when Nadine fell sick.She died in Belgium in February of 1972.In 2022, a documentary digging deep into the details of Nadine's love story was released.
It was called Nelly and Nadine. All month, we're talking about disappearing acts.For more information, find us on Facebook and Instagram at Womanica Podcast.Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator.Talk to you tomorrow.
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