Johanna Trienekens

Geslacht:	Vrouw
Vader:	Hendrik Hubert Trienekens
Moeder:	Hubertina Wilhelmina Joosten
Geboren:	1923
Aantekeningen:	Last Name: Heiligenberg van den First Name: Johanna Maiden Name: Trienekens Date of Birth: 01/01/1923 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Religion: CATHOLIC Gender: Female Profession: SECRETARY Place during the war: Venlo, Limburg, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Venlo, Limburg, The Netherlands ; S Hertogenbosch, Noordbrabant, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding, Supplying basic goods, Providing forged documents, Arranging shelter, Other File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/9585) Johanna Trienekens, (later, van den Heiligenberg), b.1923, worked as a secretary in Venlo (prov. Limburg) in the electrical appliances and metal business of the Jewish families, F. M. Keizer and Mozes Schönbach. She was still living at home with her mother Hubertina, a widow. The family, devout Roman Catholics, was known in the town, where the father had been a member of the city council. When the Keizer/Schönbach business was put under "Aryan" management as required by the Nazi authorities - in this case a representative of the Siemens factory - Johanna opted to stay on to be able to report to the families on developments in the business. Because the business was useful to the German regime, members of both families received a postponement for "work in the East". However, in April 1943, when the Keizers were tipped off that they were to be arrested, they turned to Johanna for help. Already in touch with a local resistance group, she was able to find a number of hiding addresses that very same day, and later to obtain false papers and food stamps for them. She also accompanied a number of the family members to their hiding places, while fully realizing the personal risk involved. When she found out that seven-year-old David Frits (called Frido) was unhappy at his hiding place, Johanna managed to arrange for him to go to the Hensel* family, in 's Hertogenbosch, where other family members, among whom his cousin, Ernst Keizer, were already in hiding. Johanna picked him up and brought him to the Hensels. At the end of 1943, she picked up Eva, a Keizer daughter (later, Ahronheim), b.1929, who was in hiding elsewhere, and took her to her parents' hiding place. She traveled to Amsterdam to pick up a niece, Henny, in order to bring her to another hiding address, only to find out that she had already been arrested. Johanna's mother, Hubertina, was very well aware of her daughter's actions on behalf of both Jewish families. Whenever needed, she opened her home and helped out. Thus, Eva, when she was ill, was taken in by Hubertina and nursed back to health. Also an aunt, Ziporah Schönbach, was taken into the Trienekens home for a number of months. In fact, each time that a member of one of the families was in danger at his/her hiding address, it was at the Trienekens home that they received temporary refuge. Johanna kept in touch with the various Keizer and Schönbach family members in their various hiding places throughout the war. She, as well as her mother, became their principal support. After the war, a number of the Keizer family members lived for a while with mother and daughter Trienekens, until they found new homes. On December 20, 2001, Yad Vashem recognized Johanna Heiligenberg van den-Trienekens and her mother Hubertina Trienekens-Joosten, as Righteous Among the Nations.

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