Emotional reunion of Engelandvaarders in Scheveningen – Den Haag FM

May 14, 2015, 20:28

Gerard van den IJssel

Scheveningen Thursday was a special reunion of the Delft student Karel Dahmen and one of the Jewish refugees he helped escape at the beginning of World War II in England.

Dahmen clinched in Scheveningen on May 14, 1940 a rescue ship and spent thus 42 Jewish refugees to England. “Nobody had it through,” said the 96-year-old to England laconically. “There might be a ship us are chasing hazards. As we have noticed anything. “A day later, the passengers in the North Sea are picked up by the British Navy.

Lut Velmans (92) was one of the Jewish passengers. “When I first saw ship today again, I thought, how is it possible that there were 46 people on board? I can now do not imagine ‘The in America living Dahmen puts his heroic deed “. Sometimes I think we took well with the Jewish passengers, and they took it to us,” he says with a smile.

Book

The Hague journalist Danny Verbaan wrote the book “Road” about the rescue. He was also present at the reunion on Thursday restored the boat and signed his book

Small photo:. Wybe van der Wal (Facebook)
Big picture: Daniel van Dam (Twitter)