Leendert Overduin holds the title Righteous Among the Nations, given by Yad Vashem to those who saved Jews during the Holocaust at risk to themselves.
The record lists Leendert Overduin as Dutch minister and resistance fighter, righteous among the nations, 1900-1976.
Leendert Overduin was born at Leiden in 1900. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands.
By occupation Leendert Overduin was christian minister and pastor - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Rescue during the Holocaust was not a grand gesture but a sequence of small, repeatable risks taken over months or years.
Recognition: Righteous Among the Nations (1973).
Leendert Overduin died in 1976, aged 76. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1973
- Worked as Christian minister and pastor
