Hilde Duizer

Geslacht:	Vrouw
Vader:	Frans Bernardus Duizer
Moeder:	Gijsbertje Verhoef
Geboren:	1 Jan 1925
Overleden:	19 MRT 2011
Aantekeningen:	Last Name: Straten van First Name: Hilde Maiden Name: Duizer Date of Birth: 01/01/1925 Date of death: 19/03/2011 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Religion: PROTESTANT Gender: Female Profession: AGRICULTURIST Place during the war: Asperen, Gelderland, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Asperen, Gelderland, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/10289) Seventeen-year-old Hilde Duizer, one of seven children in the Duizer family was living on the family farm in Asperen (prov. Gelderland). Most of her older siblings had already left the parental home. With the death of her father Frans in 1940, Hilde left school and stayed on at home to help her mother Gijsbertje with the many chores. At the end of 1941, with the ever-increasing measures against the Jews, and especially against the large number of Jewish refugees, an acquaintance of the Duizers asked them if they would take in a Jewish refugee from Germany. After a family consultation, it was agreed that Daniel Hess, in his twenties, could stay at the farm. He helped out with the chores, but made sure to stay out of sight. Daniel stayed well into the period when Jews were being rounded up for deportation starting in the summer of 1942. At that point, he insisted on visiting his girlfriend in Amsterdam. Against the advice of the Duizers, Daniel left, was caught and deported. In 1943, the Duizers took Jozef (Joopke) van Straten, 22, into hiding with them. The Duizers knew the van Straten family who had a butcher store in Rumpt, one of the neighboring villages, and who had come to buy cattle from the Duizers from time to time before the war. Jozef Van Straten had been arrested, but managed to escape and immediately turned to the Duizers for help. He was taken in without hesitation since the Duizers realized the immediate danger he was in. At the same time, they understood the risk they were taking for themselves, since one of the Duizer sons, a policeman, had refused to go for training in Schalkhaar, a police training center established on Nazi principles. Jozef Van Straten slept in the attic. During the day he stayed inside, but after dark, he was able to go out. He helped with whatever he could, and both he and the Duizers managed very well together. One day in 1944, the Germans surrounded the entire village, looking for Jews as well as illegal radios and bicycles. They forced themselves into the Duizer home, and searched every room. Jozef was hiding in the haystack but when they reached there, Hilde started to flirt with the soldiers in order to divert their attention. Jozef was thus not detected. Jozef Van Straten stayed until the liberation of the area in April 1945. After the war, a romance between Jozef and Hilde led to their marriage and soon after, they moved to Israel. On June 13, 2004, Yad Vashem recognized Gijsbertje Duizer-Verhoef and Hilde Straten van-Duizer, as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Huwelijkspartner:	Jozeph van Straten	geb. 5 Sept 1920 overl. 2012
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