Johannes Josephus Emerence Banens

Geslacht:	Man
Vader:	Johannes Franciscus Matthias Banens
Moeder:	Jeannette Kist
Geboren:	5 Juni 1892	Meester Cornelis
Overleden:	19 MEI 1971
Beroep:		geemploijeerde van een cultuuronderneming
Religie:		Rooms Katholiek
Aantekeningen:	Personal Information Last Name: Banens First Name: Johannes Josephus Emerence Alias: JOOP Date of Birth: 05/06/1892 Date of death: 19/05/1971 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Religion: ROMAN CATHOLIC Gender: Male Rescue Place during the war: Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/1521) Commemoration Date of Recognition: 09/01/1979 Righteous Commemorated with Tree/Wall of Honor: Tree Ceremony organized by Israeli diplomatic delegation in: The Hague, Netherlands Ceremony held in Yad Vashem: Yes Rescued Persons Dotsch, Gretha Cohen, First name unknown Cohen, First name unknown Rescue Story Banens, Johannes Josephus Emerence & Johanna Francisca Antonia (van Bakergem) On September 2, 1942, Samuel Dotsch, the husband of Elisabeth Dotsch-Viskoper, was called up to register for work in the east. He was subsequently deported and killed in Auschwitz. The rest of the Dotsch family (his wife and three daughters) fled their home without having made any provision for themselves. Elisabeth found a hiding place with Leendert and Aaltje Rietveld* in Leiden. A member of an Amsterdam-based underground student group led by Otto de Vaal fetched her five-year-old daughter, Gretha, and escorted her to the home of Johannes (Joop) and Johanna (Jenneke) Banens in Zeist, Utrecht. Joop was active in the underground. The Banenses, a Catholic couple, had previously lived in the Dutch Indies and had eight children aged from under one to 19. Initially, Joop and Jenneke only agreed to hide Gretha temporarily. However, they did not have the heart to have her relocated and so she received a false identity card and remained with them until the end of the war (apart from a few months when Gretha was relocated to Heerlen, Limburg, because of acute danger in Zeist). During the war, two other children named Cohen stayed with the Banens family, but they soon returned to their parents. At one point in the war, the Germans apprehended the Banenses’ eldest son, but he managed to escape. They took excellent care of Gretha, Elisabeth Dotsch wrote in her testimony to Yad Vashem. They would have adopted her if no relatives had survived. On January 9, 1979, Yad Vashem recognized Johannes Josephus Emerence Banens and his wife, Johanna Francisca Antonia Banens-van Bakergem, as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Huwelijkspartner:	Johanna Francisca Antonia van Bakergem	geb. 11 Feb 1898
Huwelijk:	19 MRT 1920	Den Haag
Kinderen:
	Bernard Leo Emerence Banens	geb. 1942 overl. 4 OKT 1957