How to Flee the Gestapo

I am pleased to announce the creation of the Association Dutch-Paris (dutch-paris.com), a non-profit registered in Thann, France. The family of Suzanne Hiltermann, who played such an important role in […]

Within the titanic clash of World War II, the Resistance was actually a rather small world. Only a fraction of the European population was willing to risk their necks to […]

Here’s another story that turns on luck, sent to me by the son of an Engelandvaarder. This is a Dutch-Paris story in a very roundabout way. The Engelandvaarder, whom we’ll […]

The last two posts described episodes in the history of Dutch-Paris in which a stranger on the street acted spontaneously in a way that helped or hindered someone associated with […]

In my last post I described a seemingly random occurrence, apparently meant as a gesture of goodwill, that had disastrous consequences for the men and women of Dutch-Paris and those […]

An Engelandvaarder with whom I had the great honor and pleasure to correspond, told me that luck played a crucial role in his escape from the Nazis. You may or […]

In the last post our valiant Pole Wyssogota had agreed to take Dutchmen and aviators to Spain in cooperation with a Dutch escape line based in Brussels which had connections […]

To continue with the last post’s descriptions of Dutch-Paris’s entanglement in the Holocaust, I noticed something unexpected in my research. If you look at the Holocaust on a macro level […]

A couple of posts ago, we were talking about how Dutch-Paris took care of the medical needs of their fugitives in Brussels and Paris. The situation was different again in […]

What did rescuers do if a fugitive they were sheltering needed medical attention? After all, people were in hiding for years. Someone had to have developed an abscessed tooth or […]