I sit in awe of the war time stories of our brave soldiers of the war days.My father being one of those heros.During the war he fought the germans but knew what was going on with the slaughtering of the jews and became a freedom fighter starting up the Dutch resistance in his area.

During these times he was as known "Sjakkie" translated as being Jack. He told of stories of how he rescued Dutch Jews from the clutches of the Germans smuggling them underground to safety. He also told of stories of sticking up the coupon printing office and stole the food coupons to give to the starving jews. One sad story which haunted him all of his life was where he was being chased by the germans and hid out in a farm house on the out skirts of Amsterdam. Here the Germans heard of his location and persued him to the farm house.They then tortured the farmer and his family trying to get them to divulge Sjakkies where-a-bouts.The brave farmer would not give him up and hence was murdered. He told of how he broke into the concentration camp to save his mate. Others escaped as well. 

DUTCH RESISTANCE FIGHTERS