Jelis Jan Creutzberg

Geslacht: Man
Vader: Karel Frederik Creutzberg
Moeder: Anna Helena van der Wall
Geboren: 9 Juli 1879 Arnhem
Overleden: 6 Feb 1951 Den Haag
Beroep: predikant
Aantekeningen: Last Name: Creutzberg
First Name: Jelis Jan
Date of Birth: 09/07/1879
Date of death: 06/02/1951
Rescuer's fate: survived
Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS
Religion: PROTESTANT
Gender: Male
Profession: PASTOR
Place during the war: Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Rescue Place: Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Rescue mode: Hiding
File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/967)
On September 11, 1943, Peter Santcroos was born in a non-Jewish hospital in Naarden, North Holland. Nobody knew that his mother, Elizabeth, was Jewish. Piëta Creutzberg, a nurse, thought that the young mother might develop some confidence if she read to her from the Bible. Piëta instinctively chose to read from the Old Testament and Elizabeth soon began pouring her heart out to the nurse. “Nurse Creutzberg did not lose any time,” Peter’s father wrote in his testimony to Yad Vashem. “She took the baby, left the hospital, and brought him to her parents [the Reverend Jelis and Francoise Creutzberg] in Nijmegen, Gelderland, who took care of him for 16 months under the most terrible circumstances. [Peter remained there] until Nijmegen was liberated and we were able to collect our son in February 1945.” During this time, the Japanese shot Jelis and Francoise’s eldest son and the Germans shot Piëta’s fiancé. “I would like to draw your attention,” Mr. Santcroos wrote, “to the fact that the Reverend Creutzberg never baptized the child, but considered it a great joy and satisfaction to himself and his wife to return a Jewish child unharmed to his parents and to Jewry.” After the war, one of the main streets in Nijmegen was named after Jelis-Jan Creutzberg.
On August 12, 1975, Yad Vashem recognized Pieta Vincentina Creutzberg and her parents, Jelis-Jan Creutzberg and Francoise Nelly Creutzberg-van Stein Callenfels, as Righteous Among the Nations.

Gezin 1

Huwelijkspartner: Françoise Nellij van Stein Callenfels geb. 14 Juli 1884
Huwelijk: 10 Apr 1907 Heerde
Kinderen:
  Piëta Vincentina Creutzberg Male geb. 7 MEI 1915 overl. 19 Jan 1997
  Karel Frederik Creutzberg Male geb. 2 OKT 1908 overl. 20 Feb 1942
  Catharina Wilhelmina Creutzberg Male geb. 27 Dec 1910
  Hendrik Willem Creutzberg Male geb. 12 Feb 1913 overl. 12 Feb 1914
  Lodewijk Gerard Theodoor Creutzberg Male geb. 18 Dec 1920 overl. 28 Juli 1945