Jan van Hulst

Jan van Hulst was an engineer who was active in the Dutch resistance during the Second World War. He was instrumental in preventing Jews from being deported and killed during the Holocaust.

Van Hulst first became involved in this work when the parents of his Jewish wife, Paula, were arrested along with her aunt and held in Amsterdam as a temporary way station before being deported to a Nazi concentration camp in German occupied Poland. Van Hulst convinced the Germans in command that his mother-in-law was a Belgian Catholic who had been expelled from Belgium to the Netherlands when World War I broke out, due to her husband having an Austrian passport. Van Hulst claimed that she had been accidentally registered as Jewish when she was granted Dutch citizenship. In order to convince the German commanders of his loyalty, he praised their efforts to deport Jews, but warned them against being overzealous and deporting non-Jews by mistake. When his mother-in-law confirmed his account, she and her husband (at that time, Jews with Gentile spouses were exempt from deportation) were released. In addition, this protected her relatives, and Paula van Hulst—now registered as a half-Jew married to a Gentile—was exempt from being deported.

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Bruidegom: Jan van Hulst Relatiesoort: Bruidegom Geslacht: Man Geboorteplaats: Nijmegen Leeftijd: 24 Beroep: civiel ingenieur Vader bruidegom: Dirk van Hulst Geslacht: Man Moeder bruidegom: Maria Antonetta Françoise Dutrij van Haeften Geslacht: Vrouw Bruid: Pauline Horowitz Relatiesoort: Bruid Geslacht: Vrouw Geboorteplaats: Antwerpen (België) Leeftijd: 28 Beroep: muziekonderwijzeres Vader bruid: Pinkasse ook Paul Horowitz Geslacht: Man Beroep: kantoorbediende Moeder bruid: Chaya Margolia Zoukerman Geslacht: Vrouw Gebeurtenis: Huwelijk Datum: woensdag 25 april 1928 Gebeurtenisplaats: Amsterdam