Johan Eggink

Geslacht: Man
Vader: Hendrik Jan Eggink
Moeder: Jenneken Albers
Geboren: 8 Feb 1878 Mossel
Beroep: landbouwer
Aantekeningen: Last Name: Eggink
First Name: Johan
Date of Birth: 08/02/1878
Date of death: 01/01/1973
Rescuer's fate: survived
Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS
Gender: Male
Profession: farm manager
Place during the war: Barchem, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Rescue Place: Barchem, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Rescue mode: Hiding
File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/11308)
The Sanders family, father David (1902), mother Clara Sophia (née Keizer, 1902) and their children, Eline (b. 1932), Marie Lena (b. 1934) and Elbert Daan, (b. 1939), lived in Haarlem. David was a travelling salesman; Clara took care of the children and the home. In 1927, the Sanders couple converted to Protestantism and was actively involved in their church community.
Some months after the German occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940, anti-Jewish measures followed. By January 1941, the German authorities ordered Jews with one of more Jewish grandparents to register as Jews. Even though exceptions were made for Jews who could prove that they had converted prior to that date, the Sanders family did register as Jews, even though David Sanders had the Haarlem municipal registry certificate that the family was Protestant (Nederlands Hervormd).
Despite this, they followed orders issued for Jews. Parents David and Clara subsequently moved to Amsterdam when ordered. When, in May 1942, the order came for all Jews to wear a yellow star with the designation ‘Jew’, they did so. However, when, in the summer of 1942, orders came to report for ‘work in the East’, they decided to go into hiding.
They were given leads by their protestant minister, such that daughter Eline, then going by the name Elly, was taken in by Johan and Berendina Eggink, a farm family in Barchem (prov. Gelderland). Elly was presented as a city cousin who had come to stay. She went to school and was able to lead life just as the others in the village.
Through Berendina’s brother who had known the Sanders family before the war, the other two Sanders children, Marie Lena and Elbert Daan, were brought to Johan Isak (Joop) and Hendrika Hollebrands who lived in Sliedrecht (prov. South-Holland) with their two children. Joop was a land surveyor and active in a local resistance cell helping to distribute food stamps and from time to time hiding people in his boat that was hidden in bulrushes nearby (see Roggeveen*). While with the Hollebrands couple, both Sanders children went to school along with their own two children. They soon felt at home as siblings of the Hollebrands children.
David and Clara found a hiding address in Amsterdam. They took off their star and made the ‘J’ in their identity card somehow invisible, such that they felt they could go outside. They also went to visit their children in their hiding places. In the middle of 1943, when, especially in Amsterdam, special units of the “Henneicke Kolonne” were out hunting for Jews in hiding, the Sanders were stopped on the street. They were taken to the local SD station, where collaborators received their financial reward. After intense interrogation, during which teeth were knocked out of David’s mouth, they gave away the hiding addresses of their children who were picked up together with Joop Hollebrands himself.
All five members of the Sanders family were taken to Westerbork and then deported to Auschwitz where they were all murdered on September 10, 1943.
On June 16, 2009, Yad Vashem recognized Johan Isak Hollebrands and Hendrika Hollebrands-van de Kaa as well as Johan Eggink and Berendina Eggink-Jansen as Righteous Among the Nations.

Gezin 1

Huwelijkspartner: Berendina Jansen geb. 27 Juli 1878 overl. 10 MRT 1957
Huwelijk: 17 Apr 1903 Laren, Gld.
Kinderen:
  Hermanus Hendrikus Eggink Male geb. 17 Juli 1904
  Hendrika Johanna Eggink Male geb. 6 Apr 1906
  Hendrika Harmina Eggink Male geb. 8 Sept 1907
  Johanna Hendrika Eggink Male geb. 22 Sept 1909
  Hendrik Jan Eggink Male geb. 21 Jan 1911 overl. 9 Jan 1946
  Berendina Eggink Male geb. 11 Dec 1912 overl. 2 Apr 1938