Gerard Bernardus Boomer
| Geslacht: | Man | |
| Vader: | Gerrit Bernardus Boomer | |
| Moeder: | Elisabeth Maria Jacoba Verhoeff | |
| Geboren: | 21 Jan 1895 | Driebergen |
| Overleden: | 21 Feb 1970 | Voorburg |
| Aantekeningen: | Boomer Gerard (1896 - 1970 ) Personal Information Last Name: Boomer First Name: Gerard Date of Birth: 23/01/1896 Date of death: 21/02/1970 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Male Profession: TEACHER Place during the war: Voorburg, Zuidholland, The Netherlands Den Haag, Zuidholland, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Voorburg, Zuidholland, The Netherlands Den Haag, Zuidholland, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding Arranging shelter Providing forged documents File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/11068) Commemoration Date of Recognition: 09/05/2007 Righteous Commemorated with Tree/Wall of Honor: Wall of Honor Ceremony organized by Israeli diplomatic delegation in: The Hague, Netherlands Rescued Persons Cohen, Betsy Winter de, Meijer, Bertine Baer, Walter Meijers, Arend, Samuel Meijers, Suze, Eveline Rescue Story Boomer, Gerard B. (23.1.1896 Driebergen 21.2.1970 Voorburg) Boomer-Beents, Corrie E. (23.11.1902 Utrecht 19.3.1993 Voorburg) Gerard Boomer was a physics teacher at a Christian high school in The Hague. He and his wife Corrie had three small children, the oldest, eight years old and the youngest, a baby. A fourth child was born in 1944. Soon after the occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940, Gerard became actively involved with groups that resisted the Nazi regime. With the increasing anti-Jewish measures, he concentrated his activities on trying to help the persecuted Jews, starting with supplying them with food stamps and false identity cards, and later with giving a number of Jews shelter in his own home. However, as Gerard became a central figure in his underground cell, hiding Jews for longer periods of time was considered too risky. At the beginning of 1943, Elfriede Häusler (later, Shulamith Lurie), who had to leave an earlier hiding address, was taken to the home of Gerard and Corrie Boomer. Her sister, Edith (later, Feldmann), a friend of Corrie Bastiaans*, who knew Gerard from their underground activities, had taken her there. Elfriede stayed with the Boomers for some weeks, and received from Gerard a false identity card in the name of Johanna Wolsink. When Gerard was able to locate a more secure hiding place for her, he took her there. He kept in touch with her and each month he brought food stamps and some extra money for expenses. In addition, he took letters back and forth between her and her sister who was by then in hiding elsewhere. A few months later Gerard took another young Jewish woman, Betsy Cohen, to the same hiding address. Again a few months later, he received a call that the family feared a house search and the women had to leave immediately. Gerard asked for some time, but the family insisted that the two women leave within one day. Gerard came and took both out, Betsy to another address and Elfriede back to his own home for some days, until again, a safer place could be located. Indeed, two days later that house was searched, with German and Dutch police specifically looking for both women. After many intermittent temporary addresses, Elfriede was taken to a family in Zwolle (prov. Overijssel) where she stayed until the liberation of the area in April 1945. In addition, upon Corrie Bastiaans request, Gerard Boomer took a friend of Edith Häusler to Cornelis and Maria van Dam*, where he often also brought other Jews for temporary hiding until he was able to move them on. Bertine Meijer (later, de Winter), born in 1920 had been in hiding in the home of a teacher at the same school as Gerards, where she was a student, since the summer of 1942, when the deportations had started. When the teacher was arrested in late 1943, she was put in touch with Gerard, who took her to another address. The Jewish neighbors of the Boomers, the Meijers family with daughter Sonja, were also taken by them to their hiding addresses by train, a dangerous undertaking. On May 9, 2007, Yad Vashem recognized Gerard B. Boomer and Corrie E. Boomer-Berents as Righteous Among the Nations. |
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| Huwelijkspartner: | Corry Eugenie Berents | geb. 23 Nov 1902 overl. 19 MRT 1993 |
| Huwelijk: | 31 MRT 1932 | Utrecht |