Background
Andstadt was born and lived in Lwów (Poland, nowadays Lviv in Ukraine) until 1930.
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Andstadt was born and lived in Lwów (Poland, nowadays Lviv in Ukraine) until 1930.
In the Netherlands, he completed primary school but did not go to secondary school.
When Anstadt was fourteen years old, he worked for the Transformatorfabriek Besra in Amsterdam, he often went to ANSKI a cultural club for mostly Jewish eastern European immigrants where you could assist at political and other lectures and all kind of performances, where he also received mentoring and was helped to become more spiritually developed. Later, he received a masters degree in law from the University of Amsterdam, specializing in criminology. After a warning in the evening of 9 July 1942, they had to go immediately into hiding.
Their daughter was taken afterwards to a foster family in Beverwijk by the Resistance.
From 1945 to 1950, he was an editor of the magazine Vrij Nederland. Next, he worked as a journalist with the Dutch Radio Union, and wrote the spoken parts of 1955 documentary programs for television such as In, Televisierechtbank, Spiegel der Kunsten ("Mirror of Arts") and Bezetting ("Occupation").
In 1960, he was commissioned by Wereldvenster Publishing to write a book about Poland. lieutenant was published in 1962 under the title Polen, land, volk, cultuur.
As an employee of National Research Council Handelsblad, Anstadt wrote a large number of opinion articles
In 1994, he was appointed as a knight in the Order of Orange Nassau. He died in Amsterdam and is buried at Zorgvlied cemetery.