Martinus Franciscus Schabbing
| Geslacht: | Man | |
| Vader: | Theodorus Schabbing | |
| Moeder: | Charlotta Tentij | |
| Geboren: | 22 MRT 1918 | Amsterdam |
| Beroep: | koperslager | |
| Aantekeningen: | The Righteous Among The Nations Personal Information Last Name: Schabbing First Name: Tinus Date of Birth: 22/05/1922 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Male Profession: FOOD MERCHANT Organization/ Religious order: Westerweel Groep Place during the war: Westerbork, Drenthe, The Netherlands Amsterdam, Noordholland, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Westerbork, Drenthe, The Netherlands Amsterdam, Noordholland, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding Supplying basic goods Providing forged documents Illegal transfer Arranging shelter File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/67) Commemoration Date of Recognition: 16/06/1964 Righteous Commemorated with Tree/Wall of Honor: Tree Ceremony held in Yad Vashem: Yes Rescued Persons Cohen, Rivka Rescue Story Schabbing, Tinus & Tony As a Resistance worker, Tinus Schabbing obtained passes for five people to travel up and down the country. Until he joined the Westerweel* group in 1942, he worked for the food distribution service in the Noord-Oostpolder. Once part of the group, Tinus gave up his job to devote himself to the Resistance full-time and was involved in freeing haverim from Westerbork, accompanying them across the border to Belgium, obtaining forged travel papers, and other activities. After the railroad strike in September 1944, when it became impossible to reach Westerbork, he found ways to visit people in hiding and to distribute food coupons. He also worked to find hiding places in Amsterdam and brought in firewood to Amsterdam by boat. Tinus Schabbing was arrested together with Frans Gerritsen* and Max Windmuller, one of the haverim, on his way back from France and Belgium to the Netherlands. However, the German arresting officer was sympathetic and released them after a few hours, returning all their incriminating papers and French money. During the war, Tinus and Tony also hid Jews in their home, among them Rivka Cohen, who stayed with them for a week in April 1944, even though this was dangerous for them at the time because the Gestapo already knew their names. The Schabbings were able to prepare Rivka for the border crossing and she managed to escape. Tinus and Tony made it to the end of the war without being arrested. On June 16, 1964, Yad Vashem recognized Tinus Schabbing and his wife, Tony Schabbing, as Righteous Among the Nations. Netherlands Documentation Project Interview Summary RG-50.570*0008 Mr. Martinus Schabbing (Tinus). Born March 22, 1918 in Amsterdam Date interview: 21 July 2004 Location: Amsterdam Short Summary: Martinus Schabbing was part of the resistance group led by Joop Westerweel. His main task was in helping people to travel. Schabbing had a pass with which he could travel in the Netherlands. He would bring people to the border, children to hiding places and twice he helped people that escape from Westerbork to travel from the camp to hiding places. Long Summary: Tape 1 Poor family. Father was unemployed, mother had to work. After elementary school Mr Schabbing started to work. Manual labor. Married in 1940. He worked in the harbor. From 1942 he was part of the group of Joop Westerweel. They helped a group of children in Loosdrecht, Jewish teenagers. They found them hiding places. These were children that had fled from Germany and that had hoped to go to Palestine. They lived on the land of family Waterman. Other people in this underground group were: Jan Smit and Shushue. The first thing that Schabbing did was help a Jewish couple to cross the border. He took them to Switzerland. They went to the Belgian border, crossed it and then took the tram to Antwerp and so on. Later he would help other people as well to cross the border. He would bring them to Belgium. Sometimes he would have to pick up children from hiding places and bring them some where else. He was called Tinus with the red shawl. That was how people would recognize him -- he would always wear a red shawl. In 1943 he was able to get a job working at the Noordoostpolder. This job meant that he would not be sent to Germany. He also got a pass to travel through the Netherlands. He was called an inspector of agriculture. Later he got a salary through the underground. He brought people to the border until the train strike in 1944. He was never caught. About how he built a hiding place in the house of a policeman. Tape 2 On about two occasions Schabbing went to Westerbork to pick up people who were escaping from the camp. There was a train going from the camp to the Oranje canal. The driver was Kurt Walter. Schabbing explained how people were able to escape the camp. In 1943 they organized a trip to Nunspeet for all the teenagers at Loosdrecht. Tinus showed pictures. About Mirjam Pinkhof who was active with finding hiding places for the Loosdrecht teenagers. About an execution that he witnessed in Amsterdam and about the arrest of Jews that he witnessed. About the Westerweel group. They did not have any guns, they were against violence. Correct spelling of some names mentioned in the video testimony: Jan Smit Shushue Bouke de Koning Max Windmüller (nick name Cor) Hans Ehrlich Leni Orslow Frans Gerritsen Menachem Pinkhof Waterman Gerda and Pim Loeff Date interview: 20 July 2004 |
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| Huwelijkspartner: | Antonia de Groot | geb. 22 MEI 1922 |
| Huwelijk: | 7 Apr 1940 | Amsterdam |