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Verstraelen Gerard & Johanna (Driessen)

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Verstraelen, Gerard & Johanna P. (Driessen) In 1943, underground members took Henny Eickenboom (later Schwegler), born in 1933, from her family home in Maastricht to Gerard and Johanna Verstraelens’ home in Blitterswijk, Limburg. Blitterswijk was a small village where Gerard and Johanna, in their thirties, lived with their one son, Chris. They were a well-respected family and lived in a house opposite the village school (which Henny was not permitted to attend). Henny’s room was in the front of the house, which was rather risky. Consequently, whenever house searches occurred, which was often, she had...

Nationality : The Netherlands

Fate : Survived

Henny Schwegler nee Eickenboom

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Driessen Johannes & Johanna (Kares)

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Driessen, P. Johannes & Johanna (Kares) Johanna and Johannes Driessen-Kares, who had a married daughter and an adult son, lived in the village of Blitterswijk, Limburg. They hid an eight-year-old Jewish boy named Alexander Dasberg when asked to by underground activist Anna van Dam. Their daughter, Johanna Verstraelen-Driessen*, and her husband, Gerard, also hid a Jewish girl. While living in the Driessens’ home, from the middle of 1943 until the middle of 1945, the Jewish boy assumed a false identity as their grandson. On July 7, 1986, Yad Vashem recognized Johannes Driessen and his wife, Johanna...

Nationality : The Netherlands

Fate : Survived