Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus 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 Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus as Dutch academic (1880-1960).
Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus was born at Amsterdam in 1880. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands. He was educated at University of Amsterdam.
By occupation Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus was economist, economic historian and historian - 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 (2008).
Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus died in 1960, aged 80. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 2008
- Worked as economist, economic historian and historian
- Educated at University of Amsterdam
