peoplepill id: dirk-boonstra-2
DB
1 views today
1 views this week
A police commander for the village of Grijpskerk in the Netherlands during World War II.
Dirk Boonstra (born 1893)
The basics
Quick Facts
Intro
A police commander for the village of Grijpskerk in the Netherlands during World War II.
From
Work field
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Sint Annaparochie
Death
9 September 1944 (aged 51 years)
People who died on this day
Place of death
Hersbruck
Age
51 years
The details (from wikipedia)
Biography
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.
The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia
article.
The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Dirk Boonstra (born 1893) is in following lists
By work and/or country
comments so far.
Comments
Dirk Boonstra (born 1893)