Rietveld Leendert & Aaltje (Kamperman)

Rietveld, Leendert Hendrik & Aaltje (Kamperman) At the end of 1942, Samuel Dotsch of Amsterdam was deported. He was subsequently murdered in Auschwitz. His wife, Elisabeth Dotsch-Viskoper, and their three daughters had to go into hiding. One of the daughters, Gretha (later Mrs. Margalith Ben Ami-Dotsch), was taken in by the Banens* family. Elisabeth went to Leendert and Aaltje Rietveld in Leiden, South Holland, where she remained until the end of the war. The Rietvelds ran a guesthouse and additional Jews found refuge there during the course of the war. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Bouwman, their daughter Marianne and son Bernard; Mr. and Mrs. Blits; Mr. Italy; and an elderly woman known as “grandmother.” Eva Bornstein (later Leesha Rose) and a number of other Jews hid temporarily in the guesthouse or with Leendert and Aaltjes’s daughter, Mrs. N. de Koning-Rietveld’s family. On January 9, 1979, Yad Vashem recognized Leendert Hendrik Rietveld and his wife, Aaltje Rietveld-Kamperman, as Righteous Among the Nations.