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aap Penraat, an architect
and industrial designer
who helped 406 Jews
sneak out of Nazi-occupied
Netherlands and withstood tor-
ture to protect fellow members
of the resistance, has died, his
daughter said.
The 88-year-old died June 25
at his home in Catskill, N.Y. The
cause was esophageal cancer, his
daughter Noelle Penraat said.
Born in Amsterdam in 1918,
Penraat was in his 20s when he
began forging identity cards for
Jews. After being discovered,
he was imprisoned for several
months and tortured, but refused
to tell his captors anything.
After his release from prison,
Penraat and other resistance
members began .disguising Jews
as construction workers hired to
work on a wall Hitler was build-
ing along France's Atlantic Coast.
He made 20 trips, accompanying
about 20 Jews each time to Lille,
France. There they were met by
the French underground and
transported to neutral Spain.
Years later, when he began
speaking about his wartime expe-
riences, Penraat said he had sim-
ply done what seemed necessary.
"You do these things because in
your mind there is no other way
of doing it," he told the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette in 2000.
Of the 140,000 Jews who lived
in the Netherlands before the
Nazis invaded, only about 30,000
survived. Poland was the sole
nation to lose a larger percentage
of its Jewish population.
After the war, Penraat became
a noted designer in Amsterdam,
moving to the United States in
1958.
He is survived by three daugh-
ters, four grandchildren and four
great-grandchildren. His wife of
52 years, Jettie, died in 2003. II

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