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Johan van Hulst.
Dutch politician, professor and teacher (1911–2018)
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About Johan van Hulst
Johan Willem van Hulst was a Dutch school director, university professor, author, politician, chess player and centenarian. In 1943, with the help of the Dutch resistance and students of the nearby University of Amsterdam, he was instrumental in saving over 600 Jewish children from the nursery of the Hollandsche Schouwburg who were destined for deportation to Nazi concentration camps. For his humanitarian actions he received the Yad Vashem distinction Righteous Among the Nations from the State of Israel in 1973.
Everything about Johan van Hulst →- Occupation
- university teacher, politician, chess player, resistance fighter
- Position held
- Member of the European Parliament, member of the Senate of the Netherlands, substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Born
- January 28, 1911
- Died
- March 22, 2018