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HIS 10: Holocaust: Aiding the Jews

Yr 7-12

Johan Van Hulst (Netherlands)

Educator, Humanitarian, Politician, Chess player. Died aged 107.

“It cannot be said of me:  ‘He was there and he looked at it.’  I saw what was going on; I saw what kind of help was needed and I tried to help, albeit to a modest extent, where possible.”

 

He recalled how a mother refused to let her children go, saying, “They need a strong mother.”  Sighing, Van Hulst said, “They were all killed.  I had read Mein Kampf in 1933.  In the chapter ‘I Am an Anti-Semite,’ it says that he [Hitler] will destroy ‘the rats of society.’  I knew it.  But the people were blinded.”  Messanaic Bible