HARKE KYLSTRA.
Harke Kylstra passed away in San Diego, California. The obituary was featured in San Diego Union-Tribune on July 24, 2003.
Harke Ruurd Kylstra, geb. Hengelo 14.07.1921, eindexamen HBS-B Gem.HBS Hengelo 1938, kandidaatsexamen geneeskunde 1e gedeelte Amsterdam UvA 1940, artsexamen 1e gedeelte Leiden 1948, artsexamen 2e gedeelte Leiden 1948, arts in USA 1967, overl. USA 30.03.2003, tr. Dedemsvaart 24.06.1949 Jansje Rolina Koetsier, geb. Middelstum 19.05.1918, artsexamen 2e gedeelte Leiden 1949, jeugdarts te Enschede (1972), d.v. Jan Koetsier, arts, en Alida Etje Switters.
Woonachtig: Frederiksplein 33, Amsterdam
Verwantschap: Hij was een broer van Reinder Anne Kijlstra.
Lid: Was lid van de sabotage- en liquidatiegroep CS6 (Corellistraat 6).
Gearresteerd: Eerste arrestatie 19-3-1943, vrijgekomen 12-4-1943, tweede arrestatie 8-43, vrijgelaten 11-43
Gevangenschap in: Haagsche Veer Rotterdam
Opmerkingen: Hij werd de eerste keer tegelijkertijd met Karel Louis de Vries en Margaretha Philomena Taselaar in opdracht van Untersturmführer Schöning van de Rotterdamse Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam door de Rotterdamse inspecteur van politie Breugen gearresteerd. Hij had fl. 353,67 op zak, wat ongeveer twee maandsalarissen was. Ze werden tegelijkertijd door de Rotterdamse Sicherheitsdienst vrijgelaten.
Woonachtig: Frederiksplein 33, Amsterdam
Verwantschap: Hij was een broer van Reinder Anne Kijlstra.
Lid: Was lid van de sabotage- en liquidatiegroep CS6 (Corellistraat 6).
Gearresteerd: Eerste arrestatie 19-3-1943, vrijgekomen 12-4-1943, tweede arrestatie 8-43, vrijgelaten 11-43
Gevangenschap in: Haagsche Veer Rotterdam
Opmerkingen: Hij werd de eerste keer tegelijkertijd met Karel Louis de Vries en Margaretha Philomena Taselaar in opdracht van Untersturmführer Schöning van de Rotterdamse Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam door de Rotterdamse inspecteur van politie Breugen gearresteerd. Hij had fl. 353,67 op zak, wat ongeveer twee maandsalarissen was. Ze werden tegelijkertijd door de Rotterdamse Sicherheitsdienst vrijgelaten.
KYLSTRA, HARKE Dr. Harke Kylstra, General Surgeon, passed away March 30. He was born in Holland and lived his life in the service of others. As a teenager during WWII, he was a member of a Dutch resistance group, aiding Jewish families in escaping Hitler ' s invasion of Holland. He was imprisoned and interrogated by Nazi soldiers for 3 months while watching all of his fellow Resistance members being executed. He was released from prison and used as a decoy to lead Nazi soldiers to others in the movement. On learning this, he fled to Poland and lived for two years in the basement of a Polish family until the war ended. After the war ended, he believed he was now too old to finish medical school training and learned that a Jewish Foundation sought him out to assist in funding his medical training. After earning his medical degree in Holland, he came to the United States to complete his education as a General Surgeon. He spent 30 years of surgical practice with the African-American community in Edgefield, South Carolina. At 65 years of age, he worked with the the U.S. Government and spent the next ten years as a surgeon working exclusively with the Navaho Indians in Arizona. Retiring at 75 years of age, he spent the next five years volunteering his surgical talent on a island off of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. He and his wife, Barbara Carpenter, residents of La Jolla, had actively promoted the living conditions in LaGonave, Haiti, donating English/ Creole dictionaries to young students while Dr. Kylstra volunteered his time as the only surgeon on the island before kidney failure took his life. His last decision made was to donate his body to UCSD ' s Medical School to assist in training future doctors. Donations can be sent to La Jolla ' s Presbyterian Church, c/o Haiti ' s Education and Medical Program.
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