Frederik Jacques Frits Anton's son Philips b. 16 April 1905 d. 5 Dezember 2005

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Frederik Jacques "Frits" Philips (16 April 1905 – 5 December 2005) was the fourth chairman of the board of directors of the Dutch electronics company Philips, which his uncle and father founded. For his actions in saving 382 Jews during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, he was recognized in 1996 by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations.

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Anton Philips brought his son Frits Philips and grandson Franz Otten into the company in their times. Anton, Otten and other family members escaped the Netherlands just before the Nazi Occupation during World War II. They went to the United States and returned after the war.

His son Frits Philips chose to stay and manage the company during the occupation. He was imprisoned for several months at the concentration camp of Vught after his workers went on strike, and he survived. He saved the lives of 382 Jews by claiming them as indispensable to his factory, and enabled them to evade Nazi roundups and deportation to concentration camps. Anton Philips died in Eindhoven in 1951.

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The Oxford Group was a lifelong source of inspiration to him and his wife. On 4 July 1929 in The Hague, he married Sylvia, Jonkheerin van Lennep (The Hague, 16 December 1905 – Eindhoven, 29 August 1992), daughter of ..., Jonkheer van Lennep (Wiesbaden, 3 October 1876 – The Hague, 13 September 1951), and wife Digna Jacoba Mijer (b. Batavia, 28 March 1883). The couple had seven children: Digna Hintzen-Philips (b. 14 September 1930), Anton Frederik (b. 12 March 1932), Anne Jetje (Annejet) Philips-Campbell (b. 14 October 1933), Sylvia Philips-Van Werkhoven (b. 6 December 1936 – d. 13 June 1988), Warner, Frits (who married and had Warner (b. 3 October 1969) and Frits) and Maria.

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