Jonkers First name unknown & First name unknown ; Daughter: Post Antoinette (Jonkers)

Jonkers, Dr. & Mrs. Post Uiterweer, Antoinette F. (Jonkers) On February 28, 1943, Wilma and Hans Grünfeld, a Jewish couple, had a baby, Joyce. They were hidden in Plasmolen, Limburg, at the time and were forced to leave immediately because the Germans found out that a Jewish baby had been delivered at the local Jewish sanitarium. The Resistance took the ten-day-old baby to Dr. and Mrs. Jonkers in Tiel, Gelderland. The Jonkerses had a daughter and two sons. The daughter, Antoinette Jonkers (later Post-Uiterweer), had been living in the coastal area before the Germans evacuated it and had returned home at the same time as the baby arrived. The local people in Tiel began to talk about Antoinette’s illegitimate child. Antoinette, who took care of the baby, never denied these rumors. To make them even more believable, Joyce bore an uncanny resemblance to her “grandfather,” Dr. Jonkers. Just before the end of the war, the Germans evacuated Tiel and the Jonkers family moved to Leerdam, South Holland, with Joyce. At the end of June 1945, Joyce was returned to her parents, who had been hidden by the Bruinsmas* in Drachten, Friesland, since April 1943. On July 16, 1985, Yad Vashem recognized Dr. Jonkers, his wife, Mrs. Jonkers, and their daughter, Antoinette F. Post Uiterweer-Jonkers, as Righteous Among the Nations.