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Louis de Jong (1914-2005), historian and writer who spent much of the latter part of his life writing about the Netherlands under the Nazi occupation during World War II. The son of a diamond worker he was born in Amsterdam and became foreign editor of the anti-Nazi weekly "De Groener Amsterdammer". His magnum opus, :Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog" ("The Kingdom of the Netherlands During World War II")was published in fourteen volumes and 18,000 pages. First published in 1967, it is the standard reference work on the history of the Netherlands during World War II. The Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Dutch Institute for War Documentation) produced an electronic edition of the the entire work available in 2011.

De Jong contributed to many other histories on the Netherlands and was a speaker at symposia on the European resistance. In 1988 De Jong was awarded the Gouden Ganzenveer for his contributions to Dutch written and printed culture.

De Jong managed to escape the Holocaust by fleeing to England together with his wife when the Germans invaded the Netherlands. During that time he worked for Radio Oranje broadcasting out of London to the occupied Netherlands. In 1945 he was appointed director of the Dutch Institute for War Documentation and in 1953 he was awarded a doctorate with a study of the German Fifth column. From 1967 he was professor of contemporary history at the School of Economics at Rotterdam. De Jong lost the greater part of his family, including his parents and his twin brother during the Second World War.