Dirk Boonstra

Male, Deceased Person

1893 – 1944

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Who was Dirk Boonstra?

Dirk Boonstra 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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Born
Feb 24, 1893
Sint Annaparochie
Died
Aug 18, 1944
Hersbruck

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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