In the exhibition The Kindness of One, Dutch photographer Margaret Lansink and poet René van Hulst contemplate the great potential within a single person’s act of kindness. The couple was inspired by events in 1940, during World War II, when the Dutch Consul-General in Kaunas (Lithuania), Jan Zwartendijk, took personal action and began issuing visas for the island of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean for the Jewish community trapped in Kaunas. In only two weeks, he issued 2,345 visas and saved…

In the exhibition The Kindness of One, Dutch photographer Margaret Lansink and poet René van Hulst contemplate the great potential within a single person’s act of kindness. The couple was inspired by events in 1940, during World War II, when the Dutch Consul-General in Kaunas (Lithuania), Jan Zwartendijk, took personal action and began issuing visas for the island of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean for the Jewish community trapped in Kaunas. In only two weeks, he issued 2,345 visas and saved…

In the exhibition The Kindness of One, Dutch photographer Margaret Lansink and poet René van Hulst contemplate the great potential within a single person’s act of kindness. The couple was inspired by events in 1940, during World War II, when the Dutch Consul-General in Kaunas (Lithuania), Jan Zwartendijk, took personal action and began issuing visas for the island of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean for the Jewish community trapped in Kaunas. In only two weeks, he issued 2,345 visas and saved…

In the exhibition The Kindness of One, Dutch photographer Margaret Lansink and poet René van Hulst contemplate the great potential within a single person’s act of kindness. The couple was inspired by events in 1940, during World War II, when the Dutch Consul-General in Kaunas (Lithuania), Jan Zwartendijk, took personal action and began issuing visas for the island of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean for the Jewish community trapped in Kaunas. In only two weeks, he issued 2,345 visas and saved…

In the exhibition The Kindness of One, Dutch photographer Margaret Lansink and poet René van Hulst contemplate the great potential within a single person’s act of kindness. The couple was inspired by events in 1940, during World War II, when the Dutch Consul-General in Kaunas (Lithuania), Jan Zwartendijk, took personal action and began issuing visas for the island of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean for the Jewish community trapped in Kaunas. In only two weeks, he issued 2,345 visas and saved…

In the exhibition The Kindness of One, Dutch photographer Margaret Lansink and poet René van Hulst contemplate the great potential within a single person’s act of kindness. The couple was inspired by events in 1940, during World War II, when the Dutch Consul-General in Kaunas (Lithuania), Jan Zwartendijk, took personal action and began issuing visas for the island of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean for the Jewish community trapped in Kaunas. In only two weeks, he issued 2,345 visas and saved…

In the exhibition The Kindness of One, Dutch photographer Margaret Lansink and poet René van Hulst contemplate the great potential within a single person’s act of kindness. The couple was inspired by events in 1940, during World War II, when the Dutch Consul-General in Kaunas (Lithuania), Jan Zwartendijk, took personal action and began issuing visas for the island of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean for the Jewish community trapped in Kaunas. In only two weeks, he issued 2,345 visas and saved…

In the exhibition The Kindness of One, Dutch photographer Margaret Lansink and poet René van Hulst contemplate the great potential within a single person’s act of kindness. The couple was inspired by events in 1940, during World War II, when the Dutch Consul-General in Kaunas (Lithuania), Jan Zwartendijk, took personal action and began issuing visas for the island of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean for the Jewish community trapped in Kaunas. In only two weeks, he issued 2,345 visas and saved…