Johannis Bogaard

Geslacht: Man
Vader: Johannis Bogaard
Moeder: Aagtje de Bonte
Geboren: 10 Sept 1865 Dirksland
Overleden: 13 Feb 1945 Oranienburg, Duitsland
Aantekeningen: Last Name: Bogaard
First Name: Johannes
Alias: HANNES
Date of Birth: 01/01/1886
Rescuer's fate: imprisoned murdered
Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS
Religion: CALVINIST
Gender: Male
Profession: FARMER
Place during the war: Nieuw Vennep, Noordholland, The Netherlands, Vught, Camp, Sachsenhausen, Camp, Germany
Rescue Place: Nieuw Vennep, Noordholland, The Netherlands
Rescue mode: Arranging shelter Hiding
File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/28)
Rescue Story
Bogaard, Johannes
Bogaard, Antheunius
Bogaard, Willem
Johannes (Hannes) Bogaard was a member of a small, proud community that worked the land in Nieuw Vennep, North Holland. In the Calvinist Bogaard family, the Bible was a constant companion and Jews were known as “God’s chosen people.” Hannes knew only one Jewish family, the Mogendorffs, but when the Germans occupied Holland he took a train for the first time in his life, and visited them in Amsterdam to offer them a hiding place on his farm. Through them, he came into contact with other Jews, whom he urged to come and stay on his farm. Before long, Hannes had created a rescue network that hid around 70 Jews, acting for a year and a half without organizational support. Hannes’s daughter, Metje, together with Aagje Bogaard, his sister, and one of the Jewish refugees, looked after the Jewish refugees, most of whom were hidden at the farm of Hannes’s father, Johannes Bogaard Sr., known as Grandpa Bogaard. In November 1942 there was a raid on the farm in which 11 Jews were found and deported. This event served as a warning for the remaining occupants to adopt a more cautious and secretive lifestyle. During the raid 77-year-old Grandpa Bogaard was arrested and detained for ten weeks at the Amstelveenseweg prison in Amsterdam. The Gestapo said he would be released only if he undertook not to hide anyone again. But he refused to make any such promise. Meanwhile, Hannes was scouring the country for Jews. Hannes’s two unmarried brothers Antheunius and Willem Bogaard, were responsible for ensuring a supply of rye, wheat, and other food to the hidden fugitives. The Bogaards had little money and had to resort to trickery and deception to feed the refugees. On October 6, 1943, the Bogaard farm was attacked after a Dutch SS man was killed there by one of the refugees in hiding. During the raid, 34 people were found and deported, none of whom survived the war. Willem managed to save a large group of Jewish children whom he had hidden in the shallow water of the drainage canal behind the house. These children were hidden elsewhere immediately afterwards and all of them survived. Metje Bogaard, who was hiding in a haystack with another group of children, also went undetected, but the Jews who were hidden with another brother of Hannes’s, Pieter, were caught. Pieter, Aagje, and Grandpa Bogaard were taken prisoner. The last was murdered at Sachsenhausen concentration camp on February 15, 1945. Pieter died at his home on September 15, 1944, after months of imprisonment at the Vught camp. Aagje perished in 1959, her body and spirit unable to recover from the wartime ordeal. While Hannes was himself in hiding his wife Klaasje hid four Jews, but was betrayed. She and her three sons and her daughter-in-law Lies, a Jewish girl who had married one of the sons, were arrested together with the Jews. Two of the sons were released after three days. Teun, however, was imprisoned in Vught and died in Oranienburg in November 1944, aged 30. Lies survived the war. The other four Jews perished. Although Hannes and Klaasje Bogaard were fugitives themselves, they survived the war. During the course of the occupation Hannes helped around 200 Jews survive.
On October 22, 1963, Yad Vashem recognized Johannes Bogaard as Righteous Among the Nations.
On August 15, 1974 Yad Vashem recognized Antheunius and Willem as Righteous Among the Nations.

Gezin 1

Huwelijkspartner: Teuntje van Dijk geb. 1862 overl. 13 Aug 1935
Huwelijk: 26 MRT 1890 Haarlemmermeer
Kinderen:
  Johannis Bogaard Male geb. 20 Dec 1890 overl. 10 Jan 1974
  Aagje Bogaard Male geb. 24 Nov 1891
  Antheunius Bogaard Male geb. 26 Jan 1893 overl. 1 Nov 1944
  Willem Bogaard Male geb. 9 Juni 1902 overl. 17 Juni 1987