Leentje Zwiep

Geslacht:	Vrouw
Vader:	Teunis Zwiep
Moeder:	Geertje Breukhoven
Geboren:	15 Dec 1902	Rotterdam
Religie:		Ned. Hervormd
Aantekeningen:	Last Name: Dijksterhuis First Name: Lena Maiden Name: Zwiep Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Female Place during the war: Den Bosch, Noordbrabant, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Den Bosch, Noordbrabant, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding Other File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/6141) The Dijksterhuis family, who resided in Den Bosch, North Brabant, lived next door to a Jewish family, the Jacobs, with whom they became friends. In July 1942, when the Jacobs were expecting to be sent to Westerbork, Doeke and Lena Dijksterhuis offered to take their son Martin into their home. They hid him in their attic and he paid them a symbolic weekly sum towards his upkeep. In the last year of the war, the Dijksterhuises took in another three people, Martin's uncle and aunt and their son. In addition to hiding Jews during the war, Doeke Dijksterhuis took upon himself an added risk: as a postal truck driver, he was allowed into the detention camps where people were held after being caught by the Germans. In the St. Michielsgestel and Haeren camps he made contact with many inmates and illegally passed on letters from them to the outside. One of the people Doeke saved later recalled: "He was very humane towards his Jewish fellow citizens." Doeke's daughter commented: "My parents said that people just have to be helped." On June 22, 1994, Yad Vashem recognized Doeke Dijksterhuis and his wife, Lena Dijksterhuis-Zwiep, as Righteous Among the Nations

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Huwelijkspartner:	Doeke Dijksterhuis	geb. 19 Aug 1897
Huwelijk:	30 Juli 1924	Rotterdam
Kinderen:
	Geertruida Dijksterhuis	geb. 11 Aug 1926
	Geertje Dijksterhuis	geb. 25 Nov 1928