Willemke Winkler

Geslacht:	Vrouw
Vader:	Anne Winkler
Moeder:	Grietje Eekhof
Geboren:	19 Juli 1899	Joure, Haskerland
Overleden:	4 MEI 1983
Aantekeningen:	Blankenzee Willemke (1899 - 1983 ) Personal Information Last Name: Blankenzee First Name: Willemke Maiden Name: Winkler Date of Birth: 19/08/1899 Date of death: 04/05/1983 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Female Place during the war: Edam, Noordholland, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Edam, Noordholland, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/8597) Commemoration Date of Recognition: 08/08/1999 Righteous Commemorated with Tree/Wall of Honor: Wall of Honor Ceremony organized by Israeli diplomatic delegation in: The Hague, Netherlands Rescued Persons Gobes, Ronnie Rescue Story Blankenzee, Lodewijk Matthijs & Willemke (Winkler) In July 1943, when Ronnie Gobes was eight months old, his parents Levie and Elisabeth Gobes, sent him and his elder brother into hiding. Before they were transported to the camps, the couple reached an agreement with Levie's brother, A. Gobes, and his wife that after the war the surviving couple would adopt the other couple's children. Reverend Johannes took Ronnie to the home of Lodewijk and Willemke Blankenzee, a childless middle-aged couple living in Edam, North Holland. The Resistance issued a fake adoption certificate in which Ronnie was identified as an orphan named Gerrit van Wageningen. This became Ronnie's alias during the war, though the Blankenzees still put themselves at considerable risk as they were no longer young and thus attracted unwanted attention when they appeared with the baby in public. When the Allied forces attacked the nearby coast, the Blankenzees fled for their lives in the middle of the night. With Ronnie in his baby carriage, they rushed to the harbor and paid a great deal of money to cross the Ijsselmeer on a fisherman's boat, after which they went to the home of Willemke's sister in Friesland. By the end of the war, Ronnie had become so attached to his devoted foster parents that when his uncle, A. Gobes, came to collect him to keep his promise to his deceased brother, the boy ran away to be reunited with his rescuers. In 1963, he was legally adopted as Gerrit Blankenzee, but much later he assumed his original name. On August 8, 1999, Yad Vashem recognized Lodewijk Matthijs Blankenzee and his wife, Willemke Blankenzee-Winkler, as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Huwelijkspartner:	Lodewijk Matthijs Blankenzee	geb. 26 MRT 1894 overl. 22 Jan 1963
Huwelijk:	17 Dec 1924	Den Bosch