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Johan van Hulst, Dutch schoolteacher who saved hundreds of Jewish children during Holocaust, dies at 107By Ellie Silverman March 28 at 6:24 PM
An inspector from the Dutch education ministry arrived at Johan van Hulsts teacher training institute in Amsterdam on the morning of June 19, 1943. He noticed youngsters and, with SS soldiers standing nearby, asked, Are those Jewish children?
You dont really expect me to answer that, do you? Dr. van Hulst replied.
The garden of Dr. van Hulsts Reformed Teachers Training College bordered the garden of a Jewish nursery. Under Dr. van Hulsts supervision, hundreds of Jewish infants and children had been passed across the hedge and hidden in his school. As Dr. van Hulst recalled, the inspector shook his hand and said, quietly, In Gods name, be careful.
Dr. van Hulst, who was credited with saving more than 600 Jewish babies and children during World War II and, in 1972, was named Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem, died March 22 in Amsterdam. He was 107.
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Johan van Hulst, Dutch schoolteacher who saved hundreds of Jewish children during Holocaust, dies... (Original Post)
Mosby
Mar 2018
OP
Thank you for standing up to the Nazis and at great personal risk saving those kids, Johan!
chuckstevens
Mar 2018
#3
A truly courageous humanitarian in those horrid times. Thanks for the post.
appalachiablue
Mar 2018
#5
BigmanPigman
(51,560 posts)1. ....
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)3. Thank you for standing up to the Nazis and at great personal risk saving those kids, Johan!
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)4. Thanks for sharing... Every year I hear of or read several stories of
BRAVE people who did what they could to save the most people...
Just last year, I read the story of three Polish doctors that saved 8,000 Jews in a ghetto from being shipped off to Concentration Camps by faking a Typhoid outbreak in their ghetto. The Nazis were so fearful of contracting the disease that they stayed clear of that whole area...
There are many accounts of what these doctors pulled off and ever since I read about these doctors I've been amazed that a movie wasn't made about them...
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-fake-typhus-epidemic-saved-a-polish-city-from-the-nazis
appalachiablue
(41,102 posts)5. A truly courageous humanitarian in those horrid times. Thanks for the post.
Skittles
(153,104 posts)6. ....he only thought about what he was not able to do
brer cat
(24,513 posts)7. He saved so many, yet unable to forget the thousands left behind.
Now try to imagine 80, 90, perhaps 70 or 100 children standing there, and you have to decide which children to take with you, Dr. van Hulst said, according to Yad Vashem. That was the most difficult day of my life. . . . You know for a fact that the children you leave behind are going to die. I took 12 with me. Later on I asked myself: Why not 13?
Skittles
(153,104 posts)8. just one child would haunt me to the end of my days
just one
he was referring to literally thousands