For gathering valuable information and performing acts of sabotage against the Nazis in occupied Holland, Serg. Harry Wertheim, a Dutch Jew now convalescing in a sanatorium near here, was today awarded by Queen Wilhelmina the Knuis van Verdienste which is the equivalent of the Distinguished Service Cross.
The news of the award reached Serg. Wertheim in the form of a telegram he received today From the Queen. In the Netherlands Army when the Nazis invaded Holland Serg. Wertheim was sent to slave labor for the Germans. Several times he tried to escape from occupied Holland but was captured by the Nazis. Finally, last November he managed to flee from Holland to Spain and then to the United States. He is now recuperating from the effects of Nazi brutality suffered during his attempts to escape.
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