Johanna Baartman

Geslacht:	Vrouw
Vader:	Hendrik Willem Scholte
Moeder:	Johanna Boodt
Geboren:	25 Juni 1906	Rotterdam
Overleden:	1 Aug 1990	Rotterdam
Religie:		Ned. Hervormd
Aantekeningen:	akte nr. 6437, d.d. 30-08-1944 is geslachtsnaam veranderd, was Scholte Personal Information Last Name: Katz First Name: Johanna Maiden Name: Baartman Date of Birth: 25/06/1906 Date of death: 01/08/1990 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Female Rescue Place during the war: Rotterdam, Zuidholland, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Rotterdam, Zuidholland, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding Other File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/1489) Commemoration Date of Recognition: 24/11/1978 Righteous Commemorated with Tree/Wall of Honor: Wall of Honor Ceremony organized by Israeli diplomatic delegation in: The Hague, Netherlands Rescued Persons Coster, Knap, Esther, Helene Katz, Erno Knap, Benjamin Katz, First name unknown Coster, David Rescue Story Katz, Johanna (Baartman) Baartman, Abraham Hendrik Johanna Baartman began helping fleeing Jews long before her compatriots did. In 1933, when the first refugees were arriving in the Netherlands from Germany, she helped them find places to live and assisted those who wanted to move to America. During the war, she and her father, Abraham Hendrik Baartman, took six Jews into their home in Rotterdam, South Holland, among them were G. Katz, Benjamin Knap, and, later, Erno Katz, David Coster, and his future wife, Esther Helene. After her father's death, Johanna continued to look after the people hiding in her home. In order to feed them, she was sometimes forced to sell some of her belongings. She pretended she was mad and would wander around her house and in the yard dressed in old dresses, ballet slippers with her hair wild. This apparent change of life deceived the Germans, who searched her house from time to time. Once, when Johanna held up the search party at her front door so that everyone would have time to hide, the Germans smashed a window and broke into the house. Fortunately for Johanna and the Jews she was hiding, they found nothing. Once a week, in order to entertain her guests, Johanna invited friends to her house to sing and play the piano and the cello. Despite all the hardships and danger, the six Jews survived the war because of her efforts, and after the liberation she married one of them. On November 24, 1978, Yad Vashem recognized Johanna Katz-Baartman and her father, Abraham Hendrik Baartman, as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Huwelijkspartner:	Geza Katz	geb. 17 Aug 1912
Huwelijk:	XXXX	onbekend