Dutch resistance hero dies

Monday 01 October 2007

The Dutch World War II resistance hero, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema – made famous in the film Soldier of Orange - has died at his home in Hawaii. He was 90.

Roelfzema was a student at Leiden University when the Nazis occupied the Netherlands. He went underground and fled to England, where he carried out numerous missions in the service of the Dutch monarchy in exile.

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