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Anonymous ID: bfc67d July 31, 2020, 6:27 p.m. No.10144736   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4809

https://www.timesofisrael.com/dutch-jewish-fighter-whose-factory-was-used-to-make-yellow-stars-dies-at-98

 

Dutch-Jewish fighter whose factory was used to make yellow stars dies at 98

 

Henk van Gelderen, a Dutch-Jewish resistance fighter whose textile factory was used to produce yellow stars for the Nazis, died at 98.

 

The De Stentor newspaper reported Tuesday about van Gelderen’s death.

 

Van Gelderen’s factory in the eastern city of Enschede, NV Stoomweverij Nijverheid, was confiscated by the German occupation forces soon after they invaded the Netherlands in 1940 and was used to produce 569,355 of the stars that Nazis forced Jews to wear.

 

Van Gelderen himself went into hiding in Amsterdam, assumed a false identity and teamed up with a resistance cell that was well-known for its high-quality forgeries of identity and travel documents for those wanted by the Nazis.

 

His older brother, Matthieu, who was also in the resistance, was arrested and murdered shortly before the Netherlands was liberated by Allied forces.

 

In March, Van Gelderen was named honorary mayor of Enschede.

 

In an interview, Van Gelderen was asked how he felt about the workers who made yellow stars for the Germans with machines he had bought.

 

“What could they have done?” he said. “The factory had a German boss. They got the order. They had to eat. If they hadn’t done it, others would have.”

 

https://twitter.com/TCTEnschede/status/1239993954743042048

Anonymous ID: bfc67d July 31, 2020, 6:35 p.m. No.10144809   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>10144736

>https://twitter.com/TCTEnschede/status/1239993954743042048

https://www.tubantia.nl/enschede-e-o/oud-textielfabrikant-br-henk-van-gelderen-98-br-ereburger-enschede~aa3e86b4/

17-03-20

 

ENSCHEDE - Henk van Gelderen (98), a former textile manufacturer with great earnings for the city, was appointed honorary citizen of Enschede on Tuesday evening.

 

Henk van Gelderen was awarded the certificate for his honorary citizenship by mayor Onno van Veldhuizen. The ceremony was concluded by the outbreak of the coronavirus. Some time ago, the municipality of Enschede Van Gelderen decided to award the rare honorary title with a view to the (now canceled) celebration of 75 years of freedom and its advanced age. The city council and the Van Gelderen family decided to continue the ceremony in a small group. This included Van Veldhuizen's recovery from mild flu.

 

Resistance

Henk van Gelderen (Enschede, 1921), descended from a Jewish family, was director of the family business NV Stoomweverij Nijverheid in Enschede. During the war, that textile factory fell into the hands of the German occupying forces, who had 500,000 stars of David made there. During the war years, Van Gelderen himself went into hiding in Amsterdam and was active in the resistance. After the war, Van Gelderen returned to his hometown of Enschede and became director of NV Stoomweverij Nijverheid.

 

With honorary citizenship, Enschede commends Van Gelderen for its many social merits for the city. In addition to his working life, he was active in numerous additional positions in and for the cultural sector in Enschede.

 

City can be proud

"During the war and also during the decline of the textile industry, you made a great effort for Enschede and its inhabitants," praised Mayor Van Veldhuizen Van Gelderens for his city. In addition, the former textile manufacturer was also a modest man. sketched van Veldhuizen. "Enschede should be proud of a man who kept quiet of what he did."

 

Ten honorary citizens

The honorary citizenship of Enschede is determined by the city council and is reserved for a select group of Enschede citizens with great earnings. Enschede now has ten honorary citizens (living and deceased) with Henk van Gelderen. Most of them are former mayors, of whom Peter den Oudsten was given the title last. Former Arke CEO Ferdinand Fransen is also an honorary citizen. Gallery owner Martha Haveman was granted honorary citizenship shortly before her death in 2014.

Anonymous ID: bfc67d July 31, 2020, 6:47 p.m. No.10144966   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5056 >>5076 >>5250 >>5322 >>5388

>>10144951

>https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018757523/should-be-worried-about-the-rise-of-qanon

 

Should be worried about the rise of QAnon?

 

QAnon, an intricate conspiracy theory which suggests US President Donald Trump is secretly waging war on a well-connected satanic paedophile ring, should not be dismissed as a harmless oddity, according to an article by Adrienne LaFrance, executive editor of The Atlantic.

 

Conspiracy theories are growing in support and visibility on social media, and in political life, and she thinks the rise in "a mass rejection of reason" signals a dangerous new phase for society.

 

At least one of QAnon's followers could be elected to Congress after the November elections and the group has been linked to the spread of Covid-19 conspiracy theories.