Elsa Van Dien

Bayan karatun ta,ta fara koyarwa a Gemeentelijk Lyceum da ke Zaandam.A ranar 21 ga Nuwamba 1940,an kore ta saboda kasancewarta Bayahudiya. Lokacin da aka fara korar,ta shiga ɓoye a reverend JCS Locher a Leiden,kuma ta sami nasarar tsira daga yaƙin.

Kwalejin Radcliffe ta ba ta guraben karo karatu a watan Satumba na 1939,amma saboda yakin duniya na biyu kawai za ta iya fara karatun digiri a can a watan Satumba na 1945,kuma tare da goyon bayan Kungiyar Matan Jami'ar Amurka (AAUW).Rubutun ta,wanda Donald Menzel ke kulawa,ya tattauna tasirin Stark a cikin layin Balmer na farkon nau'in taurari.