Nathan Kropveld was a schoolteacher in Assen. He was dismissed for being Jewish. A school for Jewish students opened in Assen on 16 September 1941. Nathan Kropveld taught at this school.
Kropveld served on several boards. He was chairman of the Assen and Drenthe provincial Drankweercomité [abstinence committee] and secretary treasurer of the Drentse propaganda commission of the Nederlandsche Vereniging tot afschaffing van alcoholische dranken [Dutch association to abolish alcoholic beverages]. He was chairman of the Assen chapter of the league of Dutch schoolteachers, ran the Drenthe-North Overijssel institute for workers' enrichment and was a board member of continuing education.
In March 1940 Nathan Kropveld was the Assen delegate at the Drenthe district meeting of the Dutch-Jewish Congregation. Kropveld served on the Assen committee of the Jewish Council.
He wrote from Westerbork to his family in Assen: 'We are keeping well and hope to remain here for a while, even though it is a hell here.'
F.J. Hulst and H.M. Luning, De joodse gemeente Assen; Geschiedenis van een behoorlijke Kille, 1740-1976 (Assen 1993) 71, 129, 145, 149, 151 and 164
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