Johanna Hendrika Bakker
| Geslacht: | Vrouw | |
| Vader: | Johannes Bakker | |
| Moeder: | Sophia Frederika Meuring | |
| Geboren: | 18 Sept 1901 | Amsterdam |
| Overleden: | 20 MRT 1988 | |
| Aantekeningen: | Abraham Johanna (1901 - 1988 ) Personal Information Last Name: Abraham First Name: Johanna Hendrika Maiden Name: Bakker Date of Birth: 18/09/1901 Date of death: 20/03/1988 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Female Abraham Johanna Abraham Johanna Credit: Coll.Yad. Abraham Johanna Abraham Johanna Credit: Coll.Yad. Rescue Place during the war: Amsterdam, Noordholland, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Amsterdam, Noordholland, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/10538) Commemoration Date of Recognition: 03/03/2005 Righteous Commemorated with Tree/Wall of Honor: Wall of Honor Ceremony organized by Israeli diplomatic delegation in: The Hague, Netherlands Rescued Persons Wertheim, Judith Abraham-Bakker, Johanna Hendrika When in the beginning of 1943, Johanna Abraham-Bakker, in her early forties and married to a Jew, went to visit a child of one of her husbands relatives in the Jewish hospital, the Joodse Invalide in Amsterdam, she was approached by a desperate Sophie Wertheim-Zilverberg. Sophies husband Jacob and a daughter Greetje had already been caught in the fall of 1942 and deported. Sophie who was staying in the hospital with her three other children, all pretending to be ill, was looking for a hiding place for her youngest daughter, the nearly three-year-old Judith. Johanna, as the only non-Jew in her family, realized that hiding a Jewish girl would pose an extra risk. She was the only breadwinner, since her Jewish husband, David was not allowed to work. He stayed at home rather than have to wear a yellow star on the street. Their two children, Gerrit and Sophia, in their early teens, were by Nazi definition Mischlinge, i.e. a contaminated product of Jewish and non-Jewish mixed marriage. Despite the danger, Johanna and her family felt the need to reach out and soon Judith was taken into their modest home on the Admiralengracht, in one of the working class areas of Amsterdam. Judith was now to answer to the name Jetty Kolthek, supposedly a daughter of Johannas sister. She was spoiled as the little sister in the family, and soon felt at home. Judith was allowed to play outside from time to time. She even went to kindergarten, where only the headmistress knew her real identity. All during the war, the Abrahams lived continuously in fear of betrayal, especially by collaborators and sympathizers with the Nazi regime, in the immediate vicinity. During her stay with the Abrahams, Judith came to see Johanna and David Abraham as her parents. Even when David, as a Jew in a mixed marriage, refused to report to a labor camp in the Netherlands, and instead stayed in hiding in his own home, Judith was allowed to stay on. Judiths parents did not survive and she stayed on with the Abrahams as their foster daughter until her wedding. On March 3, 2005, Yad Vashem recognized Johanna Hendrika Abraham-Bakker as Righteous Among the Nations. |
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| Huwelijkspartner: | David Abraham | geb. 4 MRT 1900 overl. 14 Juni 1986 |
| Huwelijk: | 31 OKT 1928 | Amsterdam |