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Weird but True
This is the story of Johan van Hulst – the teacher who smuggled babies out of a Nazi deportation center for months, and spent the rest of his 107-year life haunted by the children he couldn’t save.
Amsterdam, 1942.
Johan van Hulst was 31 years old when the Nazis turned his neighbor into a death sentence.
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Van Hulst had to choose which children to save.
The crèche held dozens, sometimes hundreds of children. The resistance could only handle a few at a time—they needed families willing to hide them, false papers, transportation, safe houses.
So every day, van Hulst had to pick.
Which baby gets saved today? Which toddler goes over the hedge this afternoon? Which children have to wait—knowing that waiting might mean they’re deported before you can come back for them?
How do you make that choice?
Van Hulst later said in an interview:
“I took twelve children with me. Later on, I asked myself: ‘Why not thirteen?'”
That question haunted him for 75 years.
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What would you do? What would I do?
We have a similar situation going on today in Gaza and the Ukraine.
And what are we doing?
I’m only one odd soul and all I can do is tell my “elected representatives” that if they don’t cut funding for these wars, I’m not voting for them in the next election. I can only imagine the impact if all 350 MILLION citizens echoed the same message.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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