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Schmitz, Johan Joseph

Date of birth:
November 17th, 1904
Date of death:
November 30th, 1986
Nationality:
Dutch

Biography

Provided security to Jewish couple Sam and Josien Cohen-Jacobson during World War II. The Cohen family, six of whose children were accommodated at other addresses, is one of the very few large families who survived the Holocaust.

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
November 29th, 2018

Posthumous decoration.
Yad Vashem-decoration

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