A 67-year-old resident of the Hague, Jan Bulder, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years imprisonment by the special tribunal of The Hague District Court today for his complicity in the arrest and subsequent deportation of about 20 Jews from The Hague early in 1944. The public prosecutor had demanded a four-year sentence for having worked at the “Judenreferat” of the German “Sicherheitsdienst” in The Hague Bulder was arrested shortly after the liberation of The Netherlands but managed to escape and to reach South Africa.
He lived there under an assumed name but returned to Holland, likewise under his assumed name in 1969. Afterwards, however, he adopted his real name again. He was arrested early this year at Schiphol Airport when returning from a short holiday in Spain.
In pronouncing the sentence, the special tribunal took into account on the one hand that 37 years had elapsed and on the other hand that Bulder had been only a very minor official.
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