UK Daily Mail
. . . "including some he smuggled across the city in laundry baskets" . . .
. . . "He was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations - a title for non-Jews who saved Jews from murder during the Nazi slaughter - in 1972.
. . . "including some he smuggled across the city in laundry baskets" . . .
"Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu honoured Van Hulst during a trip to the Netherlands in 2012, telling him: 'We say, those who save one life save a universe.
"'You saved hundreds of universes. I want to thank you in the name of the Jewish people, but also in the name of humanity.'
"He saved the children while head of a Protestant school that was opposite a nursery used by the Nazis to detain young Jews before they were moved to death camps.
"When there were too many children - under-12s were separated from their parents by the Nazis - they would be moved to Van Hulst's school. " . . .
I should add that there was a Muslim who aided Jews and is named among these Righteous. Had these people been devoutly religious, they could very well have killed Jews with their own hands. TD
Dr. Mohamed Helmy and Frieda SzturmannI should add that there was a Muslim who aided Jews and is named among these Righteous. Had these people been devoutly religious, they could very well have killed Jews with their own hands. TD
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Dr. Mohamed Helmy and Frieda Szturmann
Anna Boros Gutman (second from left) during her visit to Berlin with her daughter Carla (extreme left), Dr. Helmy and his wife Emmi (right), 1969
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