Cornelis Jan Gooijer
| Geslacht: | Man | |
| Vader: | Gijsbert Gooijer | |
| Moeder: | Johanna Maria Verhoeks | |
| Geboren: | 19 Feb 1917 | Amsterdam |
| Overleden: | 16 Feb 1990 | |
| Aantekeningen: | Last Name: Gooijer First Name: Cornelis Jan Alias: COR Date of death: 15/02/1990 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Male Profession: GREENGROCER Place during the war: Huizen, Noordholland, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Huizen, Noordholland, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding Arranging shelter File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/8275) In June 1942, Mouris and Francisca Vis sent their two youngest children, eight-year-old Arthur and seven-year-old Anita, into hiding, each with a different family. Two months later, they found a hiding place for their 12-year-old son, Leo, and another one for themselves. In September 1943, Leo was betrayed and transported to Westerbork. During the journey he jumped off the train while it was pulling out of a station and fled to a home of a contact in Amsterdam. As soon as Cornelis (Cor) Gooijer, a neighborhood greengrocer, heard that Leo had managed to escape from the Germans, he welcomed him into his home in Huizen, North Holland. Cor and Albertje knew Leo and wanted to help him. Cor, aged 25 at the time, lived with his wife, Albertje, and four-year-old son Jacob, in a modest house that had only one bedroom with two bedsteads, a living room, a single water pump located in the kitchen, and an outhouse in the courtyard. In due course, Leo's parents heard about his subsequent refuge with the Gooijers. In November 1943 Cor and Albertje invited Leo's father, to come and stay with his son for a couple of months. In May 1944, Albertje was due to give birth to her second child. Since she was planning to do so at home, Leo was temporarily moved to the home of Wim and Dien van Straten*, also in Huizen. In the same month, the Germans organized a search for Jews in the area. On his way home Cor saw a woman and child wandering aimlessly across the upland. He learned that the woman was not the boy's mother, but that they were both Jews trying to evade the Germans. Cor took the boy to a friend's house and brought the woman to his home. Two days later, the woman, Caroline Vis, Leo's aunt, moved to her friend's home in Bussum, where she remained until the end of the war. In mid-June, Leo returned to the Gooijers' home, where he happily helped to look after his two-month-old foster sister. As the war continued, the situation of Leo's parents and sister became increasingly precarious. In their desperation, they turned to Cor and Albertje, who found a hideout for Leo's sister and mother with some neighbors. All of the Gooijers' activities were very dangerous, especially in light of the fact that Cor's mother had married a German who had joined the NSB. At the end of May 1945, Albertje gave birth to a second daughter. Two months later, Cor was drafted into the Dutch armed forces and sent to the Dutch East Indies, where he spent three years. On November 12, 1998, Yad Vashem recognized Cornelis Jan Gooijer and his wife, Albertje Gooijer-Kos, as Righteous Among the Nations. |
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| Huwelijkspartner: | Albertje Kos | geb. 1920 overl. 2015 |
| Huwelijk: | 1939 | Huizen |