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