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Dirk Boonstra

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Birthplace: Sint Annaparochie, het Bildt, Friesland, Netherlands
Death: September 09, 1944 (51)
Hersbruck, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany (Exhaustion)
Place of Burial: Grijpskerk, Zuidhorn, Groningen, Netherlands
Immediate Family:

Son of Dirk Boonstra and Aaltje Hoitsma
Husband of Antje Schat
Father of Selia Boonstra
Brother of Sybren Boonstra; Jacob Boonstra; Private; Gerard Boonstra and Geertje Boonstra

Occupation: gemeenteveldwachter
Managed by: Dimitri Gazan
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About 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.

Source: Wikipedia

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Dirk Boonstra's Timeline

1893
February 24, 1893
Sint Annaparochie, het Bildt, Friesland, Netherlands
1917
March 16, 1917
Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
1944
September 9, 1944
Age 51
Hersbruck, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
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Grijpskerk, Zuidhorn, Groningen, Netherlands