Amelie Posse (1884–1957)

Amelie Posse born to an aristocratic Swedish family, a granddaughter of Prime Minister Arvid Posse. She studied art and painting in Copenhagen. In 1904, she married Andreas Bjerre, a psychologist, with whom she had a son; the union ended in 1912, and she remarried to Czech artist Oskar ("Oki") Brázda, with whom she had two more sons. The family lived in Rome and then from 1925 to 1938 in Czechoslovakia, where she became a friend of the Czech president Tomáš Masaryk. After the Gestapo ordered her arrest, she returned to Sweden with her children. There she assisted refugees from the Nazis, and was a founder of the "discussionclub Tisdagsklubben" (Tuesday Club), a cultural group that grew into an anti-Nazi resistance movement after Germany invaded Norway in 1940. She was the author of numerous books, beginning in 1931, some published under the name Amelie Posse-Brázdová, many of which were autobiographical.