Dutch resistance fighter was WWII death camp survivor

TAYLORSVILLE, Utah -- More than 60 years ago, a teenage Adrian Versteeg played dangerous cat-and-mouse games with the Nazis, smiling in their faces as he quietly sabotaged their efforts to round up Dutch labor conscripts and transport them to German camps. As a member of a Dutch underground resistan...

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Published inDaily breeze (Torrance, Calif. : 1974)
Main Author Tony Semerad THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Torrance, Calif Los Angeles Newspaper Group 17.09.2006
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Versteeg, Adrian
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Summary:TAYLORSVILLE, Utah -- More than 60 years ago, a teenage Adrian Versteeg played dangerous cat-and-mouse games with the Nazis, smiling in their faces as he quietly sabotaged their efforts to round up Dutch labor conscripts and transport them to German camps. As a member of a Dutch underground resistance cell in The Hague during World War II, Versteeg saved several hundred souls from the concentration camps, only to be arrested and plunged into an odyssey of starvation, disease and mass death.