Fokje Dijkstra

Geslacht: Vrouw
Vader: Sies Dijkstra
Moeder: Antje Huisman
Geboren: 15 MRT 1910 Luxwoude, Opsterland
Overleden: 6 Jan 2000
Aantekeningen: Bleeker Fokje (1910 - 2000 )
Personal Information
Last Name: Bleeker
First Name: Fokje
Maiden Name: Dijkstra
Date of Birth: 15/03/1910
Date of death: 06/01/2000
Rescuer's fate: survived
Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS
Gender: Female
Organization/ Religious order: Westerweel Groep
Place during the war: Heerenveen, Friesland, The Netherlands
Rescue Place: Heerenveen, Friesland, The Netherlands
Rescue mode: Hiding
File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/2056)
Commemoration
Date of Recognition: 26/05/1981
Righteous Commemorated with Tree/Wall of Honor: Tree
Ceremony held in Yad Vashem: Yes
Rescued Persons
Ehrenfest, Ruth
Asscher, Channa
Asscher, Harry, Naftali
Surname unknown, Letty
Rescue Story
Bleeker, Johan & Fokje (Dijkstra)
Johan Bleeker, a shoemaker, and his wife, Fokje, from Heerenveen, Friesland, were deeply involved in the underground activities. Johan’s workshop was attached to his house. In August 1942, as the Germans began to deport the Jews on a large scale, the Halutzim group started searching for places to hide members. Bouke Koning* and Joop Westerweel*, searching for families in the Friesland province willing to hide Jews, came into contact with the Bleekers. For a short time, the Bleekers hid a young Jewish girl called Letty and later their home served as a temporary hiding place for Resistance workers until a safer address could be found for them. During Letty’s stay with the Bleekers, they made her remain inside during the day and kept her busy with household chores. They treated her as if she were their own child and gave her all the support she needed. They pretended to neighbors that Letty was a relative from Rotterdam whose house had been bombed. However, when people became suspicious of how exactly Letty was related, it became too dangerous for her to stay there. Four months later she moved to another place and eventually she became head of a clandestine transit house in Rotterdam for Halutzim members who were fleeing Holland. In October 1943, the Nazis arrested Letty. She was sent to Auschwitz but somehow managed to survive. During the war, Johan and Fokje hid several other people, including Harry (later Naftali) Asscher, an activist with the Westerweel* group, who stayed with them for a short period, his wife, Channa, and Ruth Ehrenfest, a pioneer from the Youth Aliyah home in Loosdrecht but originally from Austria.
On May 26, 1981, Yad Vashem recognized Johan Bleeker and his wife, Fokje Bleeker-Dijkstra, as Righteous Among the Nations.

Gezin 1

Huwelijkspartner: Johan Bleeker geb. 24 Apr 1906 overl. 28 Jan 1997
Huwelijk: XXXX onbekend
Kinderen:
  Jacoba Anna Bleeker Female geb. 26 Jan 1934