Willem Arondeus (left) and writer A. Roland Holst (right) dancing at a garden party.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 21531

Overview

Caption: Willem Arondeus (left) and writer A. Roland Holst (right) dancing at a garden party.

Later during the war, Arondeus led a gay resistance group in Amsterdam that was responsible for bombing the Amsterdam Population Registry offices. The bombing was carried out in an effort to destroy government records on Jews and others sought by the Nazis. As a result of the act, Arondeus was executed in 1943. His efforts as a rescuer have been recognized by Yad Vashem and the USHMM.
Date: June 1931 - August 1931
Locale: Aerdenhout, The Netherlands
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Toni Boumans

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Toni Boumans

Keyword: ANIMALS ANIMALS (DOGS) ARONDEUS, WILLEM DANCING DUTCH HOMOSEXUALS RESCUERS/RESCUE RESCUERS/RESCUE (PRE-WAR) RESISTERS/RESISTANCE RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS WOMEN WRITERS/INTELLECTUALS
Photo Designation: Homosexuals -- Daily Life/Portraits