Maria Oorthuijs

Geslacht:	Vrouw
Vader:	Gerardus Oorthuijs
Moeder:	Dorothea Catharina Helena Christina de Stoppelaar
Geboren:	16 Jan 1906	Brakel
Overleden:	19 Nov 1999	onbekend
Aantekeningen:	Last Name: Burger First Name: Marie Maiden Name: Oordhuis Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Religion: CALVINIST Gender: Female Place during the war: Marum, Groningen, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Marum, Groningen, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/850) Louis (later Yehuda) Weijl was nine years old in 1942 when he, his mother, Gerda, and his younger brother, Leo, first went into hiding. His father had been arrested in 1941 and had managed to smuggle out a letter to his family from a train bound for Auschwitz (where he perished) warning them not to report for deportation. Gerda twice managed to talk the police out of arresting them and then moved with her children from The Hague to Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, Reverend Burger, the minister of Louis's uncle's non-Jewish wife offered to help them. He arranged for Louis and Gerda stay with his son, the Reverend Abraham Burger, and his wife, Marie, in Marum, Groningen. Leo was sent to a safe address in the province of Utrecht. Gerda stayed with the Burgers for a few months and Louis for six. Abraham and Marie lived in a house next to the church. Louis, who was given a false identity, attended the Christian school with the Burgers' children so as not to arouse suspicion. Even though Louis studied the New Testament and the Christian faith in school, the minister did not try to impose his Calvinist beliefs on the boy. At meal times, Abraham read from the Children's Bible, always choosing passages from the Old Testament. Abraham even encouraged Louis to say the Shema every night before going to bed. After six months with the Burgers, Louis was betrayed and had to move immediately. Abraham managed to contact the underground and Louis was taken to a new address in another village. He subsequently had to move to four other places, finally finding refuge until the liberation with the Tjoelker* family in Ureterp, Friesland. On January 29, 1974, Yad Vashem recognized Abraham Burger and his wife, Marie Burger-Oordhuis, as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Huwelijkspartner:	Abram Burger	geb. 20 Aug 1903 overl. 20 Sept 1988
Huwelijk:	13 Sept 1928	Amsterdam