Alijda Jacobs

Geslacht: Vrouw
Vader:  
Moeder:  
Geboren: 7 Juni 1917 Arnhem doen
Overleden: 26 Apr 2005 Arnhem
Aantekeningen: Personal Information
Last Name: Bachrach
First Name: Alijda
Maiden Name: Jacobs
Date of Birth: 07/07/1917
Rescuer's fate: survived
Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS
Gender: Female
Rescue
Place during the war: Arnhem, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Rescue Place: Arnhem, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Westerbork, Camp, The Netherlands
Duiven, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Rescue mode: Providing forged documents
Arranging shelter
Other
Illegal transfer
File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/2195)
Commemoration
Date of Recognition: 28/01/1982
Righteous Commemorated with Tree/Wall of Honor: Wall of Honor
Ceremony organized by Israeli diplomatic delegation in: The Hague, Netherlands
Ceremony held in Yad Vashem: Yes
Honorary Citizenship of the State of Israel: Yes
Rescued Persons
Bachrach, Maurits
Bachrach, Simon
Rescue Story
Bachrach-Jacobs, Alijda
When the German authorities began sending young Jewish men, women and children to labor camps, Alijda Jacobs, a young girl engaged to a Jewish boy named Simon Bachrach, began doing whatever she could to help Jews. The first thing was to find families to hide them. Alijda took them to the various hiding places herself and made sure that family members hidden in different places could maintain contact with each other. Alijda managed to get forged identity cards for each Jew in hiding from members of the underground. There were some Jews who believed that it would be best for them to give themselves up to the occupying power, and Alijda did everything she could to persuade them not to. Alijda’s heroic pièce de résistance was helping six people---her fiancé, his two brothers and their friends---to escape from the Westerbork concentration camp. She made contact with one of the drivers who worked at the camp and persuaded him to help her, first with getting her fiancé out in disguise and with a fake ID. After Alijda found a hiding place for him with a farmer in the village of Duiven, Gelderland, she helped his brothers escape. Pretending she was a typist employed in the camp, she managed to get in and get the two young boys out. She then hung out around the gates of the camp in an effort to win the trust of the guards and managed to get in again and get their friend and another Jewish couple out. Simon Bachrach’s mother and sister were also on the long list of Jews Alijda found hiding places for and looked after, but unfortunately they were caught after being betrayed. One of the brothers, Maurits, who was hidden, was shot and killed during pursuit in October 1944 and buried under a false name. Alijda acted for moral reasons and not for any sort of compensation. She was forced to disappear herself for a short time when she was informed that the SD had gotten on to her but after a while she resumed her activities. After the war, Alijda married Simon Bachrach.
On January 28, 1982, Yad Vashem recognized Alijda Bachrach-Jacobs as Righteous Among the Nations.

Gezin 1

Huwelijkspartner: Simon Izaac Bachrach geb. 6 Juni 1916
Huwelijk: 1941 Arnhem