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A police commander for the village of Grijpskerk in the Netherlands during World War II.
Dirk Boonstra (born 1893)
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A police commander for the village of Grijpskerk in the Netherlands during World War II.
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Place of birth
Sint Annaparochie
Place of death
Hersbruck
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51 years
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Dirk Boonstra (1893) (24 February 1893 in Sint Annaparochie – 9 September 1944 in Hersbruck, Germany) was a police commander for the village of Grijpskerk in the Netherlands during World War II. It was for his actions here in refusing to carry out an order to round up the remaining Dutch Jews in the area with his fellow policemen that he is recognized in 1988 as Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem.
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