Risk and Resistance
In 1983 Yad Vashiem, The Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Centre, honoured the village of Nieuwlande in the Dutch province of Drenthe with the designation ‘Righteous Among the Nations’, the first community to be thus singled out, for having saved the lives of around 350 Jews during World War II of whom approximately 100 were children. Two individuals in particular were responsible for mobilizing the village in its efforts to save Jews: Johannes Post, a leading resistance figure who was arrested and executed in 1944, and Arnold Douwes who survived the war.
