Alice Marie Hedwig Francisca Schöller
| Geslacht: | Vrouw | |
| Vader: | Armin Emerich Johann Schöller | |
| Moeder: | Hedwig Anna Elisa Antonia Kratochwil | |
| Geboren: | 20 MEI 1909 | Pola in Istrië |
| Overleden: | 19 Juli 1994 | onbekend |
| Aantekeningen: | Last Name: Cooymans First Name: Alice Hedwig Franciska Maiden Name: Schoeller Date of Birth: 20/05/1909 Date of death: 19/07/1994 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Female Place during the war: Sint Oedenrode, Noordbrabant, The Netherlands, Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Sint Oedenrode, Noordbrabant, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/6667) At the beginning of the war, Henry (Harry) Cooymans was a medical student at the Academic Hospital in the city of Utrecht. One of his courses, bacteriology, had for a lecturer Dr. Jacob van der Hoeden (who later became a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem). When Harry suddenly had to leave the course, he left his lecturer a note that read: "Knowing that you are Jewish, and that you may get in trouble, I leave you my name and address. You can contact me whenever you need help." In October 1942, when van der Hoeden's two younger daughters, Rachel and Jacquelin (Lieneke), aged 13 and ten respectively, had to flee from their hiding place, he contacted Harry and Alice Cooymans, who immediately offered the girls a hiding place in their home in St. Oedenrode, North Brabant. Rachel and Lieneke stayed with the Cooymans family from October 1942 until April 1943. Jacob constantly offered to pay towards his children's upkeep, but the Cooymanses declined the money every time. Lieneke and Rachel (alias Fransje) passed as family members. Indeed, they were treated as such in all respects. The fugitive girls studied, helped decorate the Christmas tree, sang Christmas carols, occasionally went on walks in the woods with the three Cooymans children (aged seven, five, and three) and their nanny, and even attended daily evening prayers. No one apart from Harry and Alice knew the girls' true identities. In April 1943, a Dutch police officer warned Harry and Alice that the Germans had become suspicious of the girls and were planning to investigate their identity. Many years later, Alice told her foster daughters that the most difficult thing she ever had to do in her life was to tell van der Hoeden that his daughters had to move into another hiding place. On July 31, 1995, Yad Vashem recognized Henry Jacques Marie Cooymans and his wife, Alice Hedwig Franciska Cooymans-Schöller, as Righteous Among the Nations. |
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| Huwelijkspartner: | Henri Jacques Marie Cooijmans | geb. 24 Aug 1905 overl. 17 MEI 1986 |
| Huwelijk: | 29 Jan 1935 | Vlijmen |