1997, Yad Vashem bestowed the title Righteous Among the Nations on Zwartendijk. On 10 September 2012, he was awarded with the of the Republic of Lithuania, a decoration to award the persons who, despite danger to their lives, attempted to save life. In June 2018, a monument to Zwartendijk (about 2,000 LED rods connected into a diameter spiral) was unveiled on Laisvės alėja, Kaunas by King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and President Dalia Grybauskaitė. Popular culture In 2018 Dutch author Jan Brokken published "De Rechtvaardigen" (The Just), a book describing the rescue operation and Zwartendijk's life. The title refers to all diplomats involved in the rescue operation. In the novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, it is implied that the protagonist Josef Kavalier receives visas from Zwartendijk and his ally Chiune Sugihara. Though the novel does not mention these men by name, it describes a "Dutch consul in Kovno who was madly issuing visas to Curaçao, in league with a Japanese official who would grant rights of transit" (p. 65). Zwartendijk is also portrayed in the Japanese biopic of Sugihara, Persona Non Grata. References External links Zwartendijk in Remember.org Zwartendijk in the Jewish Virtual Library Zwartendijk in Holocaust Encyclopedia Zwartendijk in Isurvived.org Zwartendijk in Raoul Wallenberg Foundation 1896 births 1976 deaths Businesspeople from Rotterdam 20th-century Dutch diplomats Dutch corporate directors Dutch Righteous Among the Nations The Holocaust in Lithuania People who rescued Jews during the Holocaust 20th-century Dutch businesspeople