Jeltje Woudsma

Geslacht: Vrouw
Vader: Harmen Woudsma
Moeder: Sytske Oosterhuis
Geboren: 14 Aug 1907 Burum
Overleden: 4 Sept 2004
Religie: Ned. Hervormd
Aantekeningen: Personal Information
Last Name: Bakker
First Name: Jeltje
Maiden Name: Woudsma
Date of Birth: 14/08/1907
Rescuer's fate: survived
Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS
Gender: Female
Rescue
Place during the war: Engwierum, Friesland, The Netherlands
Rescue Place: Engwierum, Friesland, The Netherlands
Rescue mode: Hiding
Arranging shelter
File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/3707)
Commemoration
Date of Recognition: 17/08/1987
Righteous Commemorated with Tree/Wall of Honor: Wall of Honor
Ceremony organized by Israeli diplomatic delegation in: The Hague, Netherlands
Rescued Persons
Davids, Harry
Rescue Story
Bakker, Berend Philip & Jeltje (Woudsma)
Postal worker Berend Philip Bakker and his wife Jeltje, lived near Engwhierum, Friesland. They were members of the local underground and helped organize hiding places for Jews in the area. The village post office was actually inside their home and they used it as a cover for their activities despite the fact that the Germans came into the post office from time to time. They constantly lived in fear that they would be discovered or reported to the Germans by collaborators. What put Berend and Jeltje most at risk was the hiding of a 14-month-old Jewish boy named Harry L. Davids. The infant was handed over to the underground by his parents when he was three months old and moved from place to place until Jeltje picked him up in Dokkum. Berend and Jeltje, who were not wealthy, already had a son and three daughters. Only the eldest daughter knew the truth about the baby. To the Germans, the whole family stubbornly insisted that he was their fifth child, and that was how they treated him. Jeltje took the sick child from doctor to doctor and even had to bring him to a specialist in the town of Groningen. As Harry grew up his presence endangered the family even more: the village gossips were always talking about the Jewish boy at the Bakker house.
On August 17, 1987, Yad Vashem recognized Berend Philip Bakker and his wife, Jeltje Bakker-Woudsma, as Righteous Among the Nations

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Huwelijkspartner: Berend Philip Bakker geb. 29 Juli 1899 overl. 29 Nov 1967
Huwelijk: XXXX onbekend
Kinderen:
  Harmen Haaije Bakker Female geb. 10 OKT 1939