Regt de Nicolaas

Jiskoot, Cornelis Jakobus Jiskoot, Adriana Rachel Regt de, Nicolaas Jan Cornelis Jakobus Jiskoot (b. 1902), Adriana Rachel Jiskoot (b. 1904), and Nicolaas Jan de Regt (b. 1914) all lived in the town of Barendrecht, in the Dutch province of South Holland. When the Germans started arresting and deporting all the Dutch Jews to Westerbork, and from there to concentration camps in Germany and Poland, the three of them tried to save as many Jews as possible and to help them in every way. Among their activities to help the Jews were finding places for them to hide, providing food coupons and falsifying documents for Jews in hiding, and helping them to flee across the border. Cornelis and Adriana Jiskoot, who were brother and sister, hid a Jewish family—Rudolf (b. 1910) and Catharina Juliana (née van Broek) Manheim and their little son, John (b. 1939)—in their apartment. In September 1942 the Gestapo raided the Jiskoots’ house in order to arrest the Manheim family. Fortunately, they were no longer there; they were apparently warned by someone and had left in time to hide elsewhere. Cornelis and Adriana, however, were arrested and interrogated. Although the Jews were not found, Cornelis was sent to some camps in the Netherlands and after that to slave labor in Germany; he survived. Adriana was imprisoned for six weeks in Dutch prisons and was then liberated. Rudolf Manheim was arrested in October 1942, and he perished in a concentration camp. His wife, Catharina, and son, John, survived. On April 8, 2014, Yad Vashem recognized Cornelis Jakobus Jiskoot, Adriana Rachel Jiskoot, and Nicolaas Jan de Regt as Righteous Among the Nations.