Arie Don

Geslacht:	Man
Vader:	Arie Don
Moeder:	Magdalena Schruijer
Geboren:	4 Sept 1915	Vlaardingen
Overleden:	2008	Tasmanië
Aantekeningen:	Last Name: Don First Name: Arie Date of Birth: 04/09/1915 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Male Profession: SOAP MANUFACTURER Place during the war: Vlaardingen, Zuidholland, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Vlaardingen, Zuidholland, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/1479) Arie Don helped hide Jews together with Gerrit Don* (no relation), his contact, who, like Arie, worked at Lever Brothers, in the soap industry in Vlaardingen, South Holland. In this town, there were 17 non-Jewish families who between them saved 50 Jews. Arie and his wife, Johanna, hid two Jewish women, a lawyer named Hartog and Bloeme Swaluw, who had previously been hidden in the hospital by her Jewish doctor, Dr. Hausdorf, who himself was later hidden by Gerrit Don’s group. Bloeme came to Arie and Johanna through Marinus Post* and stayed with them from January to the end of April 1944. The Dons kept in contact with Bloeme Dickhoff-Swaluw even after they moved to Australia and Bloeme and her husband immigrated to Switzerland. On May 23, 1979, Yad Vashem recognized Arie Don and his wife, Johanna Don, as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Huwelijkspartner:	Johanna van der Heul	geb. 16 MRT 1919 overl. 2009
Huwelijk:	29 Apr 1942	Vlaardingen