# data[].attributes.body
He was a Dutch Teacher and saved over 600 Jewish children from death by Nazis.

# data[].attributes.body
In 1943 Johan was the director of a teachers collage near a Jewish deportation center which was previously known as the Hollandse Schouwberg theatre. He conspired with the person who ran the deportation center to lie about how many jews came into the center to be able utalize his collage to sneak some children out.

# data[].attributes.body
The children would be passed over the fence by the collage and then hidden in one of the classrooms. Then Johan would risk his life by searching to find families who would shelter these children. Once a family was found (based on physical discriptions so no one would be suspicious), the child would be smuggled in laundry baskets on the back of a students bike.

# data[].attributes.body
He said himself that he regrets not saving more children. Though he has saved over 600 children he is still ¨haunted¨ by how much more he could have done.

# data[].attributes.body
“You realize that you cannot possibly take all the children with you. You know for a fact that the children you leave behind are going to die. I took twelve with me. Later on I asked myself: ‘Why not thirteen?’”

# data[].attributes.body
He was a Dutch Senator for 25 years after the war! Then from 1961 to 1968 he was a part of the European parliment.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
World War Two - Johan Van Hulst Documentary: Teacher and Holocaust Saviour

# data[].attributes.body
He risked his life daily and had close calls many times with Nazis. It is either pure luck of an act of God that allowed him to pull of the heist of children every single time. He rescued 600 children from sure death. For comparison there are 630 students that attend Bloom Carroll High School.