Bakker, Dionisius Dirk & Cornelia Johanna (van Rheenen)
Dionisius Bakker and his wife Cornelia Bakker-van Rheenen, lived in a small house by the woods near Nunspeet, Gelderland. In 1940, Dionisius retired from his job with Dutch Railways. Cornelia, who was considerably younger than he, was a housewife. That same year, Dionisius and Cornelia hid three anti-Nazi underground activists in their home and decided that they would do whatever they could to oppose the occupation. In the summer of 1942, they hid a Jewish family, the Hertzes, a couple and two daughters from the town of Harderwijk. A few...