---
title: "Dick Verkijk"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Dick Verkijk"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-09-03T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Max van der Stoel","Jan Patočka","Charter 77","Zvuky Prahy (Sounds of Prague)"]
seek_code_commit: "290e6f6"
---


Dutch journalist who travelled with Foreign Minister Max van der Stoel's
delegation to Prague in 1977 and personally arranged the minister's meeting
with dissident philosopher Jan Patočka.

Matters to this vault as the eyewitness the whole van der Stoel–Patočka
dating question is ultimately measured against: he made his own
contemporaneous audio recording of the 1 March 1977 meeting, a document
distinct from — and, unlike — the archive's own unheard 1996 interview
tape with van der Stoel.

## References

- [[claim-verkijk-1977-recording-patocka-van-der-stoel-meeting-survives-zvuky-prahy]]