Geertje Heijkoop

Geslacht:	Vrouw
Vader:	Willem Heijkoop
Moeder:	Adriana Breedijk
Geboren:	14 Dec 1899	Leiderdorp
Overleden:	7 Feb 1983	Huizen, N.-H.
Aantekeningen:	Last Name: Hoogendoorn First Name: Geertje Maiden Name: Heykoop Date of Birth: 14/12/1899 Date of death: 07/02/1983 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Female Place during the war: Beekbergen, Gelderland, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Beekbergen, Gelderland, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/5029) In the autumn of 1942, the Rosenbachs, an elderly Jewish couple from Amsterdam, found shelter with Dirk Hoogendoorn and his wife, Geertje, who lived in Beekbergen, Gelderland. Towards the end of 1943, Iseder and Lina de Winters of nearby Apeldoorn, who could no longer stay at their present hiding place, joined the Rosenbachs at the Hoogendoorns, who had three daughters. This resulted in nine people living in a rather crowded house. Each couple in hiding had its own bedroom in the second story of the house, which was the top floor. They never left the house, depending entirely on the excellent care of their rescuers. A Resistance worker supplied food cards and also maintained contact between them and their daughter, who was hidden elsewhere. The Germans arrested Edauw and the two couples had to move. After his execution, they were brought back. In September 1944, the authorities demanded that each family take in some of the evacuees. The Jewish couples were now forced to share a single room and they could not even move around the house. None of the Hoogendoorns’ friends and neighbors knew about the Jews in hiding, except their minister and one of the evacuees. Adriana Hoogendoorn (later Dikkeschei), one of Dirk and Geertje’s daughters, described how food was taken to the couples’ room secretly, so as not to attract the attention of the evacuees, who might have noticed the extra cooking in the kitchen. Riek de Winter (later Kleinleugenmors) attributed her parents’ survival entirely to Dirk and his family. After the liberation, the Hoogendoorns and the de Winters kept in contact with each other. On November 5, 1991, Yad Vashem recognized Dirk Hoogendoorn and his wife, Geertje Hoogendoorn-Heijkoop, as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Huwelijkspartner:	Dirk Hoogendoorn	geb. 31 Aug 1895 overl. 4 Nov 1987
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