Petronella Hendrika Kuijper

Geslacht: Vrouw
Vader: Petrus Johannes Kuijper
Moeder: Aafje Prins
Geboren: 1922 Haarlem doen
Aantekeningen: Last Name: Boon
First Name: Petronella
Maiden Name: Kuyper
Alias: NEL
Rescuer's fate: survived
Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS
Gender: Female
Place during the war: Haarlem, Noordholland, The Netherlands
Rescue Place: Haarlem, Noordholland, The Netherlands
Rescue mode: Hiding
File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/2223)
In February 1943, 12-year-old Victor (Avigdor) Jacobs and his family were ordered to move from their home in Haarlem to Amsterdam. On May 24, when the Jacobs family was due to report for deportation, Victor and his sister did not obey the order. Instead, they were taken separately into hiding. Their parents and brother were deported to Sobibor, where they perished. Victor was taken to the home of Aafje Kuyper-Prins, a widow who lived opposite his old house in Haarlem. Aafje received him warmly and treated him like her own child. Aafje's daughter Petronella (Nel) and her husband, Willem (Wim) Boon were also part of the household. At the end of 1943, Wim, who was active in the underground, was deported to a labor camp in Germany. He escaped and returned home in 1944. As Victor had lived in the same street before the war and all the neighbors knew him, he had to remain indoors. The Germans searched the house a few times, and on each occasion Victor quickly disappeared into a hiding place underneath the house. Aafje arranged for him to spend the summers in the countryside, at the homes of farmers. As he could not go to school, Aafje arranged for a private tutor to come to the house. She covered the expenses out of her own pocket until she received funding from the Resistance. In the hunger winter of 1944--1945, after Nel gave birth to a son, she shared the extra food rations for the baby with Victor. Victor stayed with them until the end of the war.
On January 28, 1982, Yad Vashem recognized Aafje Kuyper-Prins, and Willem Boon and his wife, Petronella Boon-Kuyper, as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Huwelijkspartner: Willem Boon geb. XXXX
Huwelijk: 1942 Haarlem doen
Kinderen:
  Robert Willem Boon Female geb. 1944