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	Jan Zwartendijk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jan Zwartendijk (1899-1979) was a Dutch businessman and diplomat who helped Jews escape Lithuania during World War II.
		On June 19, 1940 he also took a part-time duty as an acting consul of the Netherlands - or, to be exact, of the Dutch government-in-exile.
		In defiance of the official diplomatic niceties, Zwartendijk signed a declaration that entering Curaçao in the West Indies did not require a visa, while omitting the second part of the standard notice that entry required the permission of the Curaçao governor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jan_Zwartendijk (343 words)

	Jewish Post - News - Holocaust Memorial Museum's Flight and Rescue Exhibition - Japanese and Dutch Diplomats Save 2,100 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Two heroes of rescue who were righteous gentiles: Jan Zwartendijk was director of the Lithuanian operations of Philips, a Dutch manufacturer of light bulbs and radios, when he took on the part-time duties of acting consul for the Netherlands in June 1940.
		Zwartendijk's appointment coincided with the Soviet takeover of Lithuania.
		Zwartendijk died in 1979 at the age of 80.
	www.jewishpost.com /jp0606/jpn0606n.htm (2876 words)

	Jan Zwartendijk: the guardian of salvation
		When two Dutch students approached Jan Zwartendijk to ask him for visas that would allow them to enter Dutch territory in the colony of Curacao, he was not yet known by the knick-name of Mr.
		The Jewish situation was distressing and Zwartendijk knew it (Himmler was about to impose a decree in October 1940, forbidding Jewish emigration from the Polish territory occupied by the nazis).
		Zwartendijk returned to the Dutch territory occupied by the Germans and returned to his executive post in the Philips factory in Eindhoven, where he died at the age of 80, in 1979.
	www.raoulwallenberg.net /?en/saviors/diplomats/2931.htm (553 words)

	rescuer
		At this point Jan Zwartendijk, voluntarily and at great personal risk, took on a role which quickly evolved into the rescue of the Jews.
		But Zwartendijk went on to write approximately 1,300 visas by hand between July 24 and 27 and another 1,050 with the help of a rubber stamp between July 29 and August 3, when the Soviets took over Zwartendijk's office, obligating him and his family to return to Holland.
		This is not surprising because Zwartendijk had made it clear to the recipients of his "Curaçao visas" that this notation would not allow them entry.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~shaked/Holocaust/rescuer.html (877 words)

	Discussions - View Single Post - The Nature of Rescue and Resistance (due Thu., Mar. 11)
		Jan Zwartendijk arrived in Lithuania from Holland as a businessman who worked for Phillips electronics.
		After Zwartendijk's office was closed in 1940, he returned to German-occupied Netherlands with his wife and three children and continued to work for Phillips electronics.
		Over the years, Zwartendijk didn't care about fame or acknowledgement, but all he wanted to know was how many people were able to pass.
	learntoquestion.com /class/discussion/showpost.php?p=27231&postcount=29 (376 words)

	Vice-Counsul Jan Zwartendijk of The Netherlands, a Hero of the Holocaust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Jan Zwartendijk was director of the Lithuanian operations of Philips, a Dutch manufacturer of light bulbs and radios, when he took on the part-time duties of acting consul for The Netherlands in June 1940.
		In a conscious deceit, Zwartendijk signed his name to a declaration that looked like a destination visa for Curaçao and other Dutch possessions in the West Indies.
		Between July 26 and August 2, 1940, Zwartendijk issued over 2,400 "Curaçao visas." His operation was shut down after the Soviets seized his Philips office in early August as part of their nationalization of the Lithuanian economy.
	isurvived.org /Rightheous_Folder/V-C_Jan_Zwartendijk.html (408 words)

	j. - S.F. historians revel in war hero's posthumous honor
		Zwartendijk's son, Jan Zwartendÿk of Arizona, is to accept the medal and certificate of honor, which names his father "Righteous Among the Nations."
		The Burlingame-based organization championed Zwartendijk's case and others like it as part of its mission to preserve the history of the period.
		Zwartendijk issued the bogus entry visas to Curacao, an island and Netherlands' colony in the Caribbean.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/7435/edition_id/140/format/html/displaystory.html (916 words)

	Jan Zwartendijk
		Jan Zwartendijk (1896-1976) was a Dutch businessman who worked for Philips, a manufacturer of light bulbs and radios.
		In June 1940, during the turmoil resulting from the German invasion of the Netherlands and the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Zwartendijk became acting Dutch consul in Kaunas (Kovno).
		De Decker and Zwartendijk had reacted to the human crisis in their midst by issuing documents that were useless except for one purpose--they helped refugees flee from Lithuania.
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007092 (346 words)

	Jan Zwartendijk
		Zwartendijk had been asked by the Dutch ambassador to replace the Dutch consul in Kaunas, a Nazi sympathizer.
		Zwartendijk churned out 1,200-1,400 visas in two weeks (some passports covered whole families) and Sugihara issued close to 2,000 (because of accepted forgeries).
		Zwartendijk was businessman who was asked by Decker to replace a Nazi sympathizer.
	www.us-israel.org /jsource/biography/Zwartendijk.html (923 words)

	Flight and Rescue History
		The Soviet Union ordered all consulates closed by August 25, and Jan Zwartendijk, acting Dutch consul, and Chiune Sugihara, Japanese consul to Lithuania, aided approximately 2,100 mostly Polish Jews to escape eastward across the U.S.S.R. to Japan.
		While technically true, Zwartendijk consciously omitted the key fact that entry was contingent upon the territories’ governors approving each immigrant on a case-by-case basis, something that was rarely done.
		Chiune Sugihara and Jan Zwartendijk have been honored as "Righteous among the Nations" by Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, for the help they provided to the Jews in 1940.
	www.ushmm.org /frexhibit/history.htm (584 words)

	Boys Town Jerusalem - NY Dinner 11/4/2002
		The award is named for Jan Zwartendijk, a Dutch business executive of the Philips Corporation, who, serving as the Honorary Dutch Consul in Lithuania in 1940, issued end visas to Curacao which saved thousands of people from certain death in the Holocaust.
		Zwartendijk and established the Jan Zwartendijk Humanitarian Award in his memory.
		Zwartendijk, and so, it was BoysTown's privilege to honor the Ho family, and by extension, the Chinese Government, who were represented at the November 4th Dinner of Tribute by the participation of the Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations, the Consul General to the People's Republic of China and members of their respective senior staff.
	www.boystownjerusalem.com /2002nydinner.htm (399 words)

	overseas guest
		The Dutch Consul was named Jan Zwartendijk, and he too was entitled to credit, along with today's principal honoree Chiune Sugihara, in the rescue of the thousands of Jews who made their way from Lithuania to Japan in 1940 and 1941.
		Zwartendijk whom she had talked to copied deDecker's endorsement on that document, on the Latvian document, identically accepted that.
		I grew up being told that Consul Sugihara was a friend of Jan Zwartedijk and that he had agreed with the Dutch consul that he would issue transit visas to Jews bearing the Dutch endorsement in their passports.
	www.chiunesugihara100.com /eng/guest-speech.htm (11089 words)

	sfweekly.com \| Arts & Entertainment \| Night+Day
		Bureaucratic Heroism One of the lesser-known but vitally important alliances of World War II was the phony-visa-producing team of Jan Zwartendijk and Chiune Sugihara, who helped save thousands of Jewish citizens from Nazi persecution.
		Zwartendijk, the acting Dutch consul to Lithuania, circumvented the entry laws of other countries by issuing what became known as the "Curacao visa," a bogus pass into the Dutch colony.
		The consuls never met, but each knew what the other was doing, and both were aware of the governmental penalties they risked for doing it (Sugihara was dismissed from the diplomatic corps upon his return to Japan).
	www.sfweekly.com /Issues/1996-07-31/calendar/nightday.html (682 words)

	Lithuania Honours a Holocaust Rescuer
		In May 1940 the Germans over-ran Holland and a Dutch Government-in-Exile, technically a resistance organization, was established in London.
		Warhaftig made inquiry of Zwartendijk, who let it be known that he was willing to give a "Cura ao visa" to anyone who asked.
		Zwartendijk originally had received De Decker's concurrence to issue phoney visas only for a few of Gutwirth's friends.
	www.dangoor.com /73page30.html (876 words)

	Simonas Strelcovas. Chiune Sugihara ir Janas Zwartendijkas – Pasaulio Tautų Teisuoliai. Istorinės peripetijos tarp ...
		The article is devoted to representatives of two foreign countries, to the Consul of Japan Chiune Sugihara, and to the Consul of theNetherlands in interim Jan Zwartendijk, their activities in Kaunas, in the summer 1940 and their relations with the Jewish war refugees.
		The first visas issued by Chiune Sugihara and Jan Zwartendijk were given out in mid July 1940.
		The future emigrants having been issued Chiune Sugihara’s and Jan Zwartendijk’s visas had also to get departure visa from the Soviets.
	www.genocid.lt /Leidyba/14/simonas.htm (502 words)

	Boys Town Jerusalem - Holocaust / Zwartendijk
		The School created the Jan Zwartendijk Institute of Humanitarian Ethics and Values, and launched an international program to honor those whose humanitarian deeds reflect the same values.
		The most recent Honoree of the Jan Zwartendijk Humanitarian award is Dr.
		Break up the paragraphs with the picture of Zwartendijk that is currently on the bottom of the page.
	www.boystownjerusalem.com /holocaust.htm (381 words)

	Features - Visa for Life: An excerpt from the book by Yukiko Sugihara
		According to Chiune's notes, their primary concern was not where they would go, but whether the Japanese Consulate would stay open long enough for them to finalize their arrangements.
		The Jews asked for the Japanese transit visas because of a suggestion by a businessman, the Honorary Dutch Consul, Jan Zwartendijk, who was willing to help the Jews.
		July 26-August 2, 1940 - Acting on de Decker's authorization, Zwartendijk issues approximately 2,400 pseudo destination visas but his operation is shut down on August 2, 1940.
	www.sushiandtofu.com /sushi_and_tofu/features_visaForLife_0304.htm (2116 words)

	Boys Town Jerusalem \| Manli Ho Speech at Boys Town Jerusalem's Ceremony Honoring Her Father Dr. Feng Shan Ho With the ...
		For my father believed that he was given a full measure of gifts by God, but that they were not for his own personal benefit but for that of his fellow man. So to be "useful" means to give back by making some contribution.
		Like his fellow diplomat, Jan Zwartendijk, my father was able to transcend background and culture to fully realize a potential that we all possess - that of humanity.
		To learn more about BTJ and the Zwartendijk Award, please contact Rabbi Gray at (800) 469-2697, or via email at rabbigray@boystownjerusalem.org.
	www.boystownjerusalem.org /pr030104-manliho.htm (855 words)

	Boys Town Jerusalem
		Gray says he will devote part of his Feb. 17 talk to a man who lived the ideals of Boys Town of Jerusalem, Jan Zwartendijk, a Holocaust hero who risked his life to save nearly 3,000 Jews.
		In the summer of 1940, Zwartendijk, honorary Dutch Counsel in Kovno, Lithuania, wrote visas for Jews to gain entry to the Dutch Island of Curacao, explains Gray.
		During his lecture, Gray will be accompanied by Tucson resident Jan Zwartendijk, Jr., one of the children of Jan Zwartendijk.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/020201/gray.shtml (497 words)

	Toon alle foto's
		Jo, Jan en Piet Zwartendijk, gefotografeerd in maart 1901, Rotterdam.
		Het echtpaar Van Dalen-Woelders tijdens een vakantie in Normandië in 1961.
		Tabaks- en theehandelaar Jan Zwartendijk, 2x zwager van Jan Hendrik Plantenga, in maart 1901.
	www.faeton.nl /browsephotos.php (529 words)

	Royal Numico N.V.: Investor Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Presentation of Jan Bennink "The Strategy for Growth" given on the Goldman Sachs Consumer Staples Mid-Cap Conference held on 24 March 2006 in London.
		Presentation given on 28 September 2005 by CEO Jan Bennink in London, at the Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd Strategic Decisions Conference 2005.
		Interviews with Jan Bennink, President and CEO and Niraj Mehra, Member of the Executive Board, Director of Operations
	www.shareholder.com /numico/medialist.cfm (466 words)

	Discussions - View Single Post - The Nature of Resistance and Rescue (due Thu., Mar. 11)
		Jan Zwartendijk was a Dutch businessman, turned diplomat, living in Lithuania who issued 2,200 visas to Jews to the Dutch island of Curacao by going through Japan.
		Thousands of Jews were able to escape the Holocaust because he gave them these visas allowing them to go to Japan, where they could then get a transit visa to Curacao, but most ended up just staying in Japan.
		They were both extraordinary people who risked their own lives for others, like Zwartendijk did.
	learntoquestion.com /class/discussion/showpost.php?p=27203&postcount=18 (359 words)

	AsianScene Magazine
		By July of the same year, with the rapid movement east by the Germans, the Soviet authorities began instructing foreign embassies to vacate Kaunas.
		With the exception of Jan Zwartendijk, the acting Dutch consul, and Sugihara who received a 20-day extension upon request, the embassies were abandoned.
		Moreover, Zwartendijk informed them that he was granted permission to stamp their passports with entrance permits.
	www.asianscene.com /ARTICLES/All/historylesstold.asp (1688 words)

	Japanese wartime hero who saved thousands
		Technically, the far-flung Dutch island of Curacao did not require an entry visa, and De Decker kindly didn't mention that that entry required permission from the local governor - something that was rarely granted.
		De Decker authorized his diplomatic colleague in Kaunas, Jan Zwartendijk, to exploit this loophole, which he did, also earning himself a place in history alongside Sugihara by issuing entry visas in the thousands.
		Unlike Ambassador de Decker and Zwartendijk, whose country was occupied by the Nazis, Sugihara still had an official chain of command in his home country, which was soon to enter an alliance with Nazi Germany.
	www.baltictimes.com /news/articles/9644 (1081 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Asian News, Business and Economy.
		Only two consuls remained - acting Dutch Consul Jan Zwartendijk and Japanese envoy Chiune Sugihara.
		Zwartendijk gave Polish Jews a visa to Curacao and Dutch Guiana, what is now Suriname.
		They didn't actually need the visa, but armed with the bogus entry they then had a reason to apply for a transit visa from the Japanese Embassy, a condition for obtaining a Soviet exit visa.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Front_Page/GE18Aa01.html (1101 words)

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