Maria Wils
| Geslacht: | Vrouw | |
| Vader: | Hermanus Wils | |
| Moeder: | Alida Jansen | |
| Geboren: | 3 Nov 1912 | Den Haag |
| Beroep: | onderwijzeres | |
| Aantekeningen: | Boeke Maria (1912 - ? ) Personal Information Last Name: Boeke First Name: Maria Maiden Name: Wills Alias: MIES Date of Birth: 03/11/1912 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Female Profession: TEACHER Place during the war: Valthe, Drenthe, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Valthe, Drenthe, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/732) Commemoration Date of Recognition: 18/06/1972 Righteous Commemorated with Tree/Wall of Honor: Wall of Honor Ceremony organized by Israeli diplomatic delegation in: The Hague, Netherlands Rescued Persons Goldschmidt, Otto Rescue Story Boeke, Cornelis Benjamin & Maria (Wills) At the beginning of 1943, the Jewish Goldschmidt couple was desperately looking for a hiding place for their son, Otto, who was born in 1940. The Goldschmidts were new to Amsterdam, having fled Germany, but they had made friends with an elementary school teacher who was active in the underground and who found a hiding place for Otto. Cornelis (Kees) and Maria (Mies) Boeke lived in Valthe, Drenthe, where Kees was a doctor and his wife was a schoolteacher. They had no children of their own and took little Otto into their home on April 3, 1943, treating him as if he were their own child. Otto stayed with them until July 1945, when his parents found him again. Believing Kees and Mies to be his parents, the separation was inevitably difficult. The Boekes also sheltered another child until the liberation. The neighbors were suspicious but never betrayed the family. Kees also helped another woman, who had just given birth, to hide with the family of a local farmer. Kees and Mies were vehemently opposed to the Nazi regime and were motivated to save the two children by their humanistic ideals. They never received any financial reward for their efforts. In 1946, Kees was killed in a road accident. On June 18, 1972, Yad Vashem recognized Cornelis Boeke and his wife, Maria Boeke-Wills, as Righteous Among the Nations. |
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| Huwelijkspartner: | Cornelis Benjamin Boeke | geb. 4 Nov 1911 overl. 30 Sept 1946 |
| Huwelijk: | 21 Dec 1939 | Amsterdam |