Trijntje de Does
| Geslacht: | Vrouw | |
| Vader: | Jan de Does | |
| Moeder: | Maria van Dijk | |
| Geboren: | 6 Aug 1910 | Sliedrecht |
| Overleden: | 17 MRT 2010 | Krommenie |
| Beroep: | kantoorbediende, journaliste | |
| Aantekeningen: | Last Name: Does de First Name: Tine Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Female Profession: STENOGRAPHER Organization/ Religious order: Vrij Nederland Place during the war: Amsterdam, Noordholland, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Amsterdam, Noordholland, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding Providing forged documents Arranging shelter Other File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/7261) When the war broke out, Tine de Does was working as a stenographer with the socialist Arbeiderspers in Amsterdam. As an executive secretary for the daily Het Volk, she learned of the intentions of the Nazis at board meetings of the newspaper at a very early stage. When she heard a collaborator was to be appointed to oversee daily publication, she decided to resign from her position, but not until after she managed to remove the Jewish names that were listed among the papers many subscribers. After her resignation, Tine dedicated all her time to the Resistance. She retreated to the attic several floors above her apartment on one of the outer canals in central Amsterdam. There she listened day and night to the clandestine Radio Oranje, broadcasting from England, and to the BBC, and wrote down what was being reported. She then transcribed all the programs and had the transcripts taken by an underground courier to the newly created underground newspaper Vrij Nederland. As Tine was in her attic 24 hours each day, she decided to make her apartment available to Jews and to others who were being pursued for their illegal activities. This created a double security threat because she was involved in two different violations. When the razzias commenced in 1942, Tine went to visit Emanuel de Metz and offered him refuge in her home. He had already organized a hiding place through another friend but he took her up on her offer in January 1943 when his former hideout became unsafe. By this time, Tine had already taken in her own brother and family, but she still agreed that Emanuel could stay with them until June of that year. By then, she had obtained a false identity card for him and found him a new hideout, where she occasionally visited him. Tine also hid Mr. Boasson from Middelburg, Zeeland, in her apartment during the summer of 1942. She also afforded Emanuel's fiancée, Kitty Granaat, and her brother Samuel shelter for six months. In October 1943, Samuel Orgelist and his wife, Rebecca (née de Groot) came to hide with Tine when they were forced to leave their former hiding place in Santpoort, North Holland. They stayed with her until the end of the war. In July 1944, good friends of the Orgelists, Leo and Eva Polk, who suddenly needed a hiding place, were welcomed into Tines apartment. They stayed there for about six weeks. In September 1944, when Mrs. Orgelist-de Groots sister Selma and her mother needed a new hideaway after Santpoort was declared a military zone and they had to evacuate their shelter, they too moved in with Tine, where they remained until the end of the war. Finally, during the last winter of the war, the famous hunger winter, when there was hardly any food available, Tine took in Sam Orgelists parents. Tine had one condition for all her illegal guests: they had to do their own cooking and cleaning because she could not take time away from the radio nor did she have cooking facilities in the attic. All in all, about 20 people, mainly Jews, found a safe haven in Tines apartment during the war. On September 8, 1996, Yad Vashem recognized Tine de Does as Righteous Among the Nations. |
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