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    Jan Zwartendijk (29 July 1896 – 14 September 1976) was a Dutch businessman and diplomat. As director of the Philips factories in Lithuania and part-time...
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    by Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, and Jan Zwartendijk, director of the Philips manufacturing plants in Lithuania and part-time...
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  • also has a publishing division. Boys Town Jerusalem originated the Jan Zwartendijk Award for Humanitarian Ethics and Values, which it awards annually...
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  • Curaçao. The so-called Curaçao-visa were issued by the Dutch consul Jan Zwartendijk, who went against the consular guidelines to give the Jewish refugees...
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  • was awarded posthumously to Jan Zwartendijk for creating visas for Lithuanian Jews. 2023, Medal in gold: Jan Zwartendijk (posthumous), for saving thousands...
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    received a so-called Curaçao visa from the Dutch consul in Kaunas, Jan Zwartendijk. This allowed one Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese...
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  • zwischen Moral und Milliarden premiered in mid-August 2018. 1997 - Jan Zwartendijk Memorial Award for Humanitarian Values and Ethics from the Boys Town...
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    period between 16 July and 3 August 1940, the Dutch Honorary Consul Jan Zwartendijk provided over 2,200 Jews with official third destination passes to...
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     Poland 7,177 Jan Karski, Maria Kotarba, Irena Sendler, Irena Adamowicz 34,849,000 20.59  Netherlands 5,910 Frits Philips, Jan Zwartendijk, Miep Gies, Bep...
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    last transport ship leaving the Netherlands to the UK in May 1940. Jan Zwartendijk, who as a Dutch consular representative in Kaunas, Lithuania, issued...
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    of the Mir Yeshiva received a "Curaçao visa" from the Dutch consul Jan Zwartendijk to Lithuania, which may have been authorized by Dutch ambassador L...
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    unsuccessful, and he was able to settle in the United States. In 1940, Jan Zwartendijk, the Dutch consul in Kaunas, and Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul...
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    make this trip thanks to the Curaçao visas issued by the Dutch consul Jan Zwartendijk and the Japanese visas issued by the Japanese consul, Chiune Sugihara...
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  • Raimondo Viale Raoul Wallenberg Johan Hendrik Weidner Rudolf Weigl Jan Zwartendijk Nations and groups Austrian Croatian Czech German Lithuanian Norwegian...
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    Polish orphans in 1920, and to the Jewish refugees in 1940 thanks to Jan Zwartendijk, the Dutch Consul in Kaunas, who issued visa for Curaçao and Surinam...
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    appreciation alongside Israeli government representatives. Raoul Wallenberg Jan Zwartendijk Chiune Sugihara Tadeusz Romer Ten Green Bottles (book) Fugu Plan History...
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  • which the Jewish have to apply the transit visas. They finally find Jan Zwartendijk, a businessman and acting consul of the Netherlands, who agrees to...
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  • they were fortunate to receive a visa from the Dutch acting consul Jan Zwartendijk for Curaçao and a Japanese transit visa from the Japanese diplomat...
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  • and Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" (1892-1983). Another child, Hendrik Jan (12 September 1888 - 6 March 1889), died in infancy. Casper's wife died in...
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    Dantas Aristides de Sousa Mendes Chiune Sugihara Raoul Wallenberg Jan Zwartendijk History of the Jews in the Dominican Republic History of the Jews in...
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    in Lithuania approached the Dutch consul Jan Zwartendijk to get a visa to the Dutch West Indies. Zwartendijk agreed to help them and Jews who had fled...
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    Raimondo Viale Raoul Wallenberg Johan Hendrik Weidner Rudolf Weigl Jan Zwartendijk Nations and groups Austrian Croatian Czech German Lithuanian Norwegian...
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    refugees during WWII, thanks largely to visas issued by the Dutch consul Jan Zwartendijk and the Japanese consul-general to Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, has...
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  • that permitted Jews to travel included Chiune Sugihara of Japan and Jan Zwartendijk, honorary consul of the Netherlands. Students of the Mir Yeshiva were...
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    Raimondo Viale Raoul Wallenberg Johan Hendrik Weidner Rudolf Weigl Jan Zwartendijk Nations and groups Austrian Croatian Czech German Lithuanian Norwegian...
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    the UK on May 12, 1940, on the last ship leaving the Netherlands; Jan Zwartendijk, who as a Dutch consular representative in Kaunas, Lithuania, issued...
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  • Hilberg says that he was "Ghetto Representative". Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt call him the "Elder" of the ghetto. Yitzhak Arad calls him "Jewish...
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    Jewish. Some intervened to rescue Jews. From 16 July to 3 August 1940, Jan Zwartendijk, the Dutch honorary consul in Kaunas, gave over 2,200 Jews an official...
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    Leendert de Decker, together with the Dutch honorary consul in Kaunas Jan Zwartendijk were willing to provide them with destination-visas to the Dutch Caribbean...
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  • Kazys Binkis Anna Borkowska Petronėlė Lastienė Bronislovas Paukštys Karl Plagge Antanas Poška Ona Šimaitė Anton Schmid Chiune Sugihara Jan Zwartendijk...
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