Kemper Hermina (Verschoof); Son: Hendrik ; Daughter: Hoef van de Geertruida (Kemper); Daughter: Os van Catharina (Kemper)

Kemper Hermina Maria (Verschoof) & Hendrik Cristiaan Geurt Hoef van de, Geertruida Grietje Adriana (Kemper) Os van, Catharina Susanna (Kemper) Hermina Kemper-Verschoof, a widow and the mother of five children, two of whom no longer lived at home, derived a meager income from the Dutch social services and lived in a small house near the German government offices. To support herself and her three younger children, she would take in boarders, but when she learned what the Germans were doing to the Jews, she decided to shelter a Jewish family, even though they could not afford to pay more than 15 guilders a week. In 1943, Benjamin and Mietje Joosten and three of their sons moved in with Hermina when they were forced to leave their hiding place with the Pfann* family. After Hermina’s death in December 1943, her children Geertruida (Grietje), Hendrik, and Catharina, aged 20, 19 and 14 respectively, continued to run the household. Benjamin wrote in his testimony to Yad Vashem that “the children resolutely refused to succumb to the pressure applied by their guardians, who were Dutch National Socialists, and go and work in Germany. During the winter of 1944, when food was scarce, these children shared the little they had with us. They hid us until the end of the war and took very good care of us.” On September 18, 1980, Yad Vashem recognized Hermina Maria Kemper-Verschoof and her children Geertruida Grietje Adriana van de Hoef-Kemper, Hendrik Christiaan Geurt Kemper, and Catharina Susanna van Os-Kemper as Righteous Among the Nations.