Yad Vashem Collections - Righteous

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Righteous

Mansum van, Margaretha Barbara In 1941, Margaretha (Greet) van Mansum and her brother, Arie van Mansum*, whisked the young, sick Sonja Sanowski away from the hospital to a hiding place. They also took care of Sonja’s nine-year-old brother, Robert, and regularly took news about the siblings to the children’s parents, Herman and Anne. Later, when Herman and Anne also went into hiding, Greet and Arie provided ration cards for the entire Sanowski family, without ever asking for any compensation. In 1942, when Jozef and Rebecca Leyden van Amstel gave birth to a daughter, a young non-Jewish couple (who later...

Nationality : The Netherlands

Religion : Calvinist

Fate : Survived

Mansum van Arie

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Mansum van, Arie Considering it their Christian duty, Derk van Assen*, a bailiff, and Arie van Mansum, a salesman, started helping Jews early on in the war in the largely Catholic city of Maastricht, Limburg close to the border with Germany, where they lived. Arie, who lived with his mother and sister Margaretha, had begun helping Jewish refugees from Germany in 1938. During the first years of the war, Arie worked for two companies all over Holland, which enabled him to travel freely and escort a Jewish family to Apeldoorn, Gelderland, when asked to do so by Derk in 1941. After the deportation of Jews...

Nationality : The Netherlands

Religion : Calvinist

Fate : Imprisoned

Spinder Siemen & Antje (Schepen van)

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Spinder, Siemen & Antje (van Schepen) High school student Jacques Butterteig had been living with his parents and brother in Maastricht when he was hospitalized in November 1942. While he was recuperating, his family was deported to Auschwitz, where they perished on February 26, 1943. Jacques (later Yitzhak Nir) was visited by a stranger named Arie van Mansum* who convinced him to go into hiding. Van Mansum arranged to meet the boy at the train station in Heerlen, equipped him with false identity papers, and took him to a temporary hiding place. In early 1943, Jacques was brought to the house of Siemen...

Nationality : The Netherlands

Religion : Calvinist

Fate : Survived

Bosch Jan

Righteous

Bosch, Jan The son of grocers from Friesland, Jan Bosch, cared for 33 Jewish children, all of whom survived the war. He had moved to Limburg with his parents, who set up a thriving wholesale grocery business where Jan also worked. Through the Dutch Calvinist youth movement of southern Limburg and business connections, Jan Bosch came into contact with Arie van Mansum* of Maastricht. One day, Arie told Jan that he was looking for hiding places for children who had been smuggled out of an Amsterdam crèche prior to their deportation to the east. The children were placed in various towns and villages around...

Nationality : The Netherlands

Religion : Calvinist

Fate : Survived

Koops Albert & Aukje (Hoks)

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Koops, Albert & Aukje (Hoks) High school student Jacques Butterteig (later Yitzhak Nir) was living in Maastricht, Limburg, with his parents and brother when he was admitted to the hospital in November 1942. While he was there, his family was deported to Auschwitz, where they perished on February 26, 1943. Jacques, meanwhile, received a visit from Arie van Mansum*, who convinced him to go into hiding immediately. In early 1943, Jacques was taken to the home of Simon and Annie Spinder*, near the village of Treebeek. In January 1944, a neighbor became suspicious and Arie rushed the young fugitive to...

Nationality : The Netherlands

Religion : Calvinist

Fate : Survived

Manen van Teunis ; Tietje (Kalsbeek van)

Righteous

Manen van, Teunis & Tietje (van Kalsbeek) When the Weslij family of Maastricht decided to go underground on February 22, 1943, Arie van Mansum* found them a hiding place. Emil and Franzi Weslij were first taken to Bouwe and Anni de Jonge, near Heerlen. Their daughter, six-year-old Leoni, was hidden at the home of Johannes and Adriana Heijnen*, but the four-year-old son, Léon, who had been hidden elsewhere, was betrayed and perished in Auschwitz. In the wake of Arie’s arrest, Bouwe and Anni began to worry about the safety of their Jewish guests. Anni searched for an alternative hiding place but was only...

Nationality : The Netherlands

Fate : Survived

Molendijk Geertje (Klijnsma)

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Molendijk, Geertje (Klijnsma) During the war, Geertje Klijnsma was engaged to Arie van Mansum* and together they escorted Jewish children from Amsterdam to safe addresses in the south of Holland. The children they helped were hidden with different families and Arie made sure that they all received ration cards, money, and new hideouts whenever necessary. At the end of 1943, the Germans caught Arie and sent him to a concentration camp. Undeterred, Geertje continued with the work on her own. At the end of 1942, 18-year-old Ignacy Butterteig (later Yitzchak Nir) went into hiding in Bussum, North Holland. He...

Nationality : The Netherlands

Fate : Survived

Huynen Martinus

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Huynen, Martinus Antonius Jozef Resistance activist Martinus Huynen lived on the same street as Emil and Franzi Weslij in Maastricht, Limburg. Martinus worked at the local income tax office and often visited the Jewish couple and their two young children, Leoni and Léon. When the Germans were about to confiscate Jewish property, the Weslij family entrusted most of their valuables to Martinus, including furniture, silver, and money. In early 1943, the Weslij family decided to go into hiding. Arie van Mansum* found them refuge with Bouwe and Anni de Jonge. When Arie was arrested eight months later, however,...

Nationality : The Netherlands

Religion : Roman Catholic

Fate : Survived

Louwers Marie (Mees)

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Louwers, Marie (Mees) Marie (Mieke) Mees, born in Castricum, studied medicine in Amsterdam. She joined the Amsterdam Women’s Student Union (AVSV) in 1942. In the spring of 1943, when she could no longer continue studying, she focused instead on recruiting people for the Amsterdam Student Group* (ASG). In May 1943, she and a girlfriend picked up nine Jewish children from the Central Station in Amsterdam and took them by train to Geleen, Limburg. Colleagues of Arie van Mansum* were supposed to collect the children at the station, but there was no one there. After some discreet inquiries, they were sent to a...

Nationality : The Netherlands

Fate : Survived

Assen van Derk & Berendina (Grolleman)

Righteous

Assen van, Derk Derk and Berendina (known as Berendje) van Assen were very sociable people. Derk had been active in the illegal underground from the beginning of the war, initially without actually being a member of any organized resistance group. The van Assens had people hidden in their home, British airmen and Jews, even before the term “onderduikers” was coined. Derk was well known in Maastricht, Limburg, where he served as president of the Protestant-Christian tax officials union. During the war he was a member of the Versleyen group, a group of professional tax officials within the larger LO, as...

Nationality : The Netherlands

Religion : Calvinist, Protestant

Fate : Murdered