Anti-Nazi Resistance hero.
He served as Dutch diplomat in France when the German army invaded, was connected to several underground networks helping to find safe houses for Jews. He also provided financial assistance for the Jews in hiding and used his contacts with French and German officials to secure the release of several Jewish families from concentration camps.
Kolkman was arrested, interrogated and sent on 15 December 1942 to a Nazi concentration camp, where he was murdered in 1944.
In 2014 he was honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
He served as Dutch diplomat in France when the German army invaded, was connected to several underground networks helping to find safe houses for Jews. He also provided financial assistance for the Jews in hiding and used his contacts with French and German officials to secure the release of several Jewish families from concentration camps.
Kolkman was arrested, interrogated and sent on 15 December 1942 to a Nazi concentration camp, where he was murdered in 1944.
In 2014 he was honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
Anti-Nazi Resistance hero.
He served as Dutch diplomat in France when the German army invaded, was connected to several underground networks helping to find safe houses for Jews. He also provided financial assistance for the Jews in hiding and used his contacts with French and German officials to secure the release of several Jewish families from concentration camps.
Kolkman was arrested, interrogated and sent on 15 December 1942 to a Nazi concentration camp, where he was murdered in 1944.
In 2014 he was honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
He served as Dutch diplomat in France when the German army invaded, was connected to several underground networks helping to find safe houses for Jews. He also provided financial assistance for the Jews in hiding and used his contacts with French and German officials to secure the release of several Jewish families from concentration camps.
Kolkman was arrested, interrogated and sent on 15 December 1942 to a Nazi concentration camp, where he was murdered in 1944.
In 2014 he was honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
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