Sam Olij

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Sam Olij as the standard bearer at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam

Simon Paulus "Sam" Olij (born October 5, 1900 in Landsmeer , † August 4, 1975 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch boxer and collaborator with the German authorities during the German occupation in World War II .

biography

Sam Olij started at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam and competed as a heavyweight boxer . In the quarterfinals he was eliminated. He became Dutch champion three times.

In the same year Olij began his service with the Dutch police . From the 1930s on, he and his sons Jan and Kees were staunch National Socialists and anti-Semites ; In 1940 the three men became members of the National Socialist Movement (NSB). From August 1941 to April 1943 Sam Olij worked for the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam . Together with his sons he was active as a so-called “Judenjäger” (“Jodenklopper”) who, for a bounty of a few gulden, tracked down Jewish people in Amsterdam and revealed their hiding places. He also acted as a boxing trainer for the Weerbaarheidsafdeling (WA), the NSB thugs.

In January 1943, Olij was involved in the evacuation of a Jewish retirement home and a children's home with 30 children. In total, he is said to have been involved in the arrest of 80 people; Olij himself emphasized that he acted “only on orders” after the war, and that he had let many Jewish people flee.

He enriched himself with the possessions of the deported Jewish people; when he was arrested, 20 suitcases of stolen property were found in his home.

After the war, Olij was sentenced to death by the Bijzonder Gerechtshof , but later classified as less criminally responsible and released from prison in 1954. His sons Jan and Kees emigrated to Argentina, where Jan died in 1996; the further life of Kees Olij is unknown.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Esther Göbel: Een hemel zonder vogels. Uitgeverij Balans, 2012, ISBN 978-9-460-03512-8 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ a b Maurice Ferares: Violist verzet in het. Lulu.com, ISBN 978-1-291-92351-3 , p. 11 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ David Koker: At the Edge of the Abyss. Northwestern University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-810-12636-7 , p. 379 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ Ad van Liempt: Jodenjacht. Uitgeverij Balans, 2013, ISBN 978-9-460-03728-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ↑ Olij, Jan. In: go2war2.nl. November 17, 1941, accessed July 22, 2016 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Olij, Sam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olij, Simon Paulus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch boxer and collaborator
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsmeer
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1975
Place of death Amsterdam