Tjitske Bottema

Geslacht:	Vrouw
Vader:	Sietze Bottema
Moeder:	Popkjen Meina
Geboren:	22 Apr 1902	Opsterland
Aantekeningen:	Last Name: Hofstee Holtrop First Name: Tjitske Maiden Name: Bottema Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Female Place during the war: Zuidhorn, Groningen, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Zuidhorn, Groningen, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/8932) The Bottema family, parents Johannes and Catharina (later, remarried as Kollewijn), were living in Huizen (prov. North-Holland) with their three young children. Catharina was active in resistance activities. In August 1943, the Bottemas were asked to take 12-year-old Rozy Jacobs (later, Vardit Salingar) into hiding. Rozy, originally from Amsterdam, had already been hiding at a number of temporary places. In the summer of 1942, her parents considered it safer for her not to stay under the close eye of the Germans in Amsterdam after a number of razzias. Catharina managed to obtain false identity papers for Rozy, in the name of Loes Berns. She was introduced as a child whose parents were afraid of an outbreak of polio in Amsterdam. Rozy was treated well. With the false papers, Rozy was registered at school so that she could continue her studies. When Catharina was away from home because of her resistance work, Rozy helped out with the Bottema children. By winter 1944, with the increase in betrayals by collaborators in the area, as well as because of the severe lack of food and fuel in the west of the Netherlands, Rozy was taken to Tjitske Hofstee Holtrop, a sister of Johannes Bottema, and her husband Hendrik, who had a farm in Zuidhorn (prov. Groningen), in the far north of the country. She was introduced as a child from the west of the country where there was no food. She was treated well and helped out on the farm. The grown sons gave her lessons so that she would not fall too far behind with her schoolwork. Rozy stayed with the Hofstee Holtrops until after the liberation of the area in April 1945. In July, her brother, who was her only surviving family member, came to take her to friends of her parents. Contact between Rozy and both families who saved her life, stayed close ever after. On May 14, 2000, Yad Vashem recognized Johannes Auke Bottema, Catharina Kollewijn-Teenstra, Hendrik Hofstee Holtrop and Tjiske Hofstee Holtrop-Bottema, as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Huwelijkspartner:	Hendrik Hofstee Holtrop	geb. 1900 overl. 19 Sept 1964
Huwelijk:	8 MEI 1924	Opsterland