Elise Johanna den Herder

Geslacht: Vrouw
Vader: Johannes Willem den Herder
Moeder: Elise Adeline Ragut
Geboren: 18 Nov 1886 Nieuwer-Amstel
Religie: Ned. Hervormd
Aantekeningen: Last Name: Haan de
First Name: Elise Johanna
Maiden Name: Herder den
Date of Birth: 18/11/1886
Date of death: 13/12/1972
Rescuer's fate: survived
Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS
Gender: Female
Place during the war: Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Rescue Place: Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Rescue mode: Hiding
File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/2152)
Johannes (Jan) Willem de Haan, a student in Utrecht and a bachelor, became involved in helping Jews and other fugitives in the very early stages of the war. He was a member of Dienst Wim, an underground group that spied on the enemy and helped Jews, and he supplied those in his care with food, money, ration cards, and identity papers, and accompanied them to hiding places. His parents, Abraham and Elise de Haan, opened their home to people as a temporary refuge. In 1942, Jan brought 15-year-old Jack Simon Cohen by train from The Hague to a hiding place in Nijmegen, Gelderland. When he was betrayed at this address, Jan escorted the teenager to Amersfoort, Utrecht. During the war, Jan also helped Jack’s sister, Ellen Vera Cohen, who wrote in her testimony to Yad Vashem that Jan provided her and her family with food coupons. Another Jewish girl, Henrica Mia Vissel, who went into hiding at the age of 14 under an assumed name on a farm in Mirns, met Jan on several occasions when he brought food coupons, money, and identity passes for her and her parents, her two brothers, and other hidden people. After double agent van der Waals infiltrated Dienst Wim, the Grüne Polizei arrested Jan and about 50 other Resistance workers. Jan was tried and convicted of assisting Jews and of espionage. After his arrest on August 3, 1943, Jan was taken from the Oranjehotel prison in Scheveningen to the SD prison in Haaren, where he avoided being transferred to a concentration camp in the east by bribing high-ranking German officials. Jan and his whole group of activists were taken to the Luttringhausen prison near Düsseldorf, where they remained until the American army liberated them in April 1945.
On October 22, 1981, Yad Vashem recognized Johannes Willem de Haan and his parents, Abraham de Haan and Elise Johanna de Haan-den Herder, as Righteous Among the Nations.

Gezin 1

Huwelijkspartner: Abraham de Haan geb. 20 Aug 1880
Huwelijk: 4 MEI 1911 Amsterdam
Kinderen:
  Elise Adelina de Haan Female geb. 4 Aug 1912
  Immagonda Maria de Haan Female geb. 23 Apr 1914
  Abraham de Haan Female geb. 1918 overl. 21 MRT 1922
  Johannes Willem de Haan Female geb. 28 Nov 1920