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Who was Jan Zwartendijk?
The acting Dutch consul in Kaunas (by day the director of Philips’ Lithuanian operations) who wrote the Curaçao "destination on paper" that made Sugihara’s transit visas possible: 2,345 inscriptions in three weeks, for people he never sought credit for saving.
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HIASThe refugee-resettlement lineage of the road he opened, the same cause his paper destination served in 1940.Visit hias.org ↗Sugihara House (Kaunas)sugiharahouse.com ↗Questions answered from the sources below
Questions about Jan Zwartendijk
Who was Jan Zwartendijk?
The acting Dutch consul in Kaunas (by day the director of Philips’ Lithuanian operations) who wrote the Curaçao "destination on paper" that made Sugihara’s transit visas possible: 2,345 inscriptions in three weeks, for people he never sought credit for saving.
Who carries Jan Zwartendijk’s cause forward today?
HIAS. The refugee-resettlement lineage of the road he opened, the same cause his paper destination served in 1940.
Where is this account of Jan Zwartendijk sourced?
Sugihara House (Kaunas), U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem and Wikipedia. Each is linked under Sources on this page.
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Sources
- Sugihara House (Kaunas)foundation · sugiharahouse.com
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museumarchive · encyclopedia.ushmm.org
- Yad Vashemarchive · yadvashem.org
- Wikipediareference · en.wikipedia.org
