Among the names Yad Vashem honours as Righteous Among the Nations is Willem Sandberg.
The record lists Willem Sandberg as Dutch graphic designer, Director of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (1897-1984).
Willem Sandberg was born at Amersfoort in 1897. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands.
By occupation Willem Sandberg was graphic designer, type designer and curator - 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: Erasmus Prize (1975), Righteous Among the Nations (1968), Museummedal of the City of Amsterdam (1962) and Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau (1960).
Willem Sandberg died in 1984, aged 87. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Erasmus Prize — 1975
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1968
- Museummedal of the City of Amsterdam — 1962
- Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau — 1960
- Worked as graphic designer, type designer and curator
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