Agatha Johanna van der Zwalm

Geslacht: Vrouw
Vader: Willem Frederik Josua van der Zwalm
Moeder: Maria Johanna van Boxmeer
Geboren: 8 Dec 1904 Rotterdam
Overleden: 23 Nov 1983 onbekend
Religie: Ned. Hervormd
Aantekeningen: Last Name: Bosschart
First Name: Agatha Johanna
Maiden Name: Zwalm van der
Date of Birth: 08/12/1904
Date of death: 23/11/1983
Rescuer's fate: survived
Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS
Gender: Female
Place during the war: Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Rescue Place: Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Rescue mode: Arranging shelter Other
File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/3261)
After Herman Denneboom was deported in 1942 from his home in Zeist, Utrecht, his wife, Eva Denneboom-Nathans, asked relatives to help find hiding places for her and her two young daughters, 11-year-old Hertha (later Tsvia) and Shulamit. She was put in touch with Ferdinand Bosschart, also from their home town, who arranged to meet them on September 17, 1942, at the railway station in Amersfoort and take them to Jan and Aaltje Versluis*, who lived in Zeist and agreed to hide them. Ferdinand kept in touch with them, making sure they had what they needed, and even organized Hebrew lessons at his home for a number of Jewish children in the area for a while until it became too dangerous. He acted on his own initiative, without the support of any underground group, motivated by what he and his wife saw as their Christian duty. In August 1944, when Eva and Hertha had to leave the Versluises' because the family situation had changed, Ferdinand picked them up and found them alternative addresses. (Shulamit had already been moved to another family.) He took Hertha to the Verheuls*, where she stayed until the end of the war, while her mother hid elsewhere.
On December 5, 1985, Yad Vashem recognized Ferdinand Martinus Bosschart and his wife, Agatha Johanna Bosschart-van der Zwalm, as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Huwelijkspartner: Ferdinandus Martinus Bosschart geb. 30 MRT 1903 overl. 15 Dec 1982
Huwelijk: 18 OKT 1933 Rotterdam