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31.8.2018. 17:44
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Dutch king and Lithuanian president honour Holocaust hero




Lithuania’s president and the King of the Netherlands on Friday unveiled a special light installation dedicated to a Dutch diplomat credited with saving over 2,000 Jews during the Holocaust.The multi-media monument in the Baltic state’s second city of Kaunas symbolises the lives saved by Jan Zwartendijk, who helped issue visas to Jews in the summer of 1940.

Litvanski predsjednik i kralj Nizozemske su otkrili specijalnu svjetlosnu instalaciju koja je posvećena nizozemskom diplomatu koji je spasio preko 2.000 Židova u vrijeme holokausta. tajmultimedijalni spomenik u baltičkom gradu Kaunasu simbolizira živote koje je spasio  Jan Zwartendijk, davanjem viza u ljeto 1940.godine. 

Litvanska predsjednica  Dalia Grybauskaite je  na ceremoniji kojoj je prisustvovao i kralj  Willem- Alexander .  kazala da je ponosna da otkriva  ovu "instalaciju" za tihog heroja koji se nikada nije hvalio da je spasio ljude, a spasio je gotovo 2.500 Židova riskirajući vlastiti život. 

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Zwartendijk provided them papers stating that Jews could reach the Dutch Caribbean territory of Curacao. The “Curacao visa” served as a key to Japanese transit visas and Soviet exit visas.  None of the refugees actually arrived in Curacao, but many of them reached free countries or ended up in Shanghai where they survived the Second World War.

After the Soviet Union annexed Lithuania, Zwartendijk was forced to shut the consulate in Kaunas in August 1940, and returned to Holland to work for Philips.
His son Rob, who attended Friday’s ceremony, said his father never spoke about his role in saving Jews from Nazi German genocide, insisting that his actions were not special.

Those who were unable to flee met a tragic fate: more than 90 percent of over 200,000 Lithuanian Jews perished under the Nazi German occupation from 1941 to 1944.

Zwartendijk was named a “Righteous Among the Nations” gentile by Israel’s Yad Vashem Yad Holocaust memorial in 1977.