Hartog (Han) Hollander (1886-1943) was best known for the football matches in which he played for the AVRO from 1928 to 1940. In 1921, Hollander became deputy chief of sports editors of De Telegraaf.
On March 11, 1928, he won the first football match covered by Dutch radio, Netherlands-Belgium, played in Olympic Stadium. More than 50 international matches followed as Hollander became immensely popular. In 1936, he helped win the Olympic Games in Berlin, receiving a charter signed by Hitler.
After the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Vogt fired all the Jewish personnel of AVRO, including his childhood friend Hollander. Vogt did this even before the occupying Nazi forces asked him to do this.
Hollander believed that nothing would happen to him because of Hitler's charter; thus, he did not go into hiding. However, Hollander was deported to the Westerbork transit camp. He and his family were sent to Sobibor in 1943. They died there in 1943.
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