April 18, 1919 - Jacob Luitjens
His decades of quiet academic life in Vancouver stood in stark contrast to a wartime record that had earned him a life sentence in absentia — for rounding up Jews and communists in occupied Netherlands. The gap between those two lives, sustained for over forty years under a false name, is what gives this case its particular weight. It took a private Dutch investigator, not any official apparatus, to close it.
From Wikipedia
Jacob Luitjens (18 April 1919 – 14 December 2022) was a Dutch collaborator during World War II. He was nicknamed the terror of Roden, as he was active in and around Roden in the Drenthe Province. He was born in Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies.
After the war, on 10 September 1948, Luitjens, who had been a member of the Nederlandse Landwacht that helped round up Jews and communists, was convicted and sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment as a collaborator and a war criminal. He evaded this punishment by fleeing to Paraguay, aided by Mennonites, using the name "Gerhard Harder". He immigrated to Canada in 1961, where he became an instructor in the Department of Botany at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Students in the department knew him as an almost completely silent "ghost-like" man.
The Frisian Jack Kooistra, also known as 'the Frisian Simon Wiesenthal', managed to track down Luitjens in 1992. Luitjens was stripped of his Canadian citizenship and was deported to the Netherlands, where he was imprisoned.
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