Anton Philips served as CEO of the company from 1922 to 1939.
10 Facts About Anton Philips
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Anton Philips's father was active in the tobacco business and a banker at Zaltbommel in the Netherlands.
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Anton Philips are remembered as being civic-minded.
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Anton Philips brought his son Frits Philips and son-in-law Frans Otten into the company in their times.
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Frits Anton Philips chose to stay and manage the company during the occupation.
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Anton Philips was imprisoned for several months at the concentration camp of Vught after his workers went on strike, and he survived.
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Anton Philips 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.
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Anton Philips was honoured with the title Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel in 1996.
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Anton Philips was awarded Order of Saint Sava and other decorations.
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Anton Philips married Anne Henriette Elisabeth Maria de Jongh.