Jan Bastiaans

Geslacht: Man
Vader: Jan Bastiaans
Moeder: Lourencia Kiers
Geboren: 30 Apr 1879 Eext, Anloo
Overleden: 20 Juni 1944 Haarlem
Religie: Remonstrants
Beroep: hoofd bijzondere school
Aantekeningen: Bastiaans Jan ( ? - 1944 )
Personal Information
Last Name: Bastiaans
First Name: Jan
Date of death: 01/06/1944
Rescuer's fate: murdered
Cause of Death: DISEASE
Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS
Gender: Male
Profession: HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER
Place during the war: Haarlem, Noordholland, The Netherlands
Rescue Place: Haarlem, Noordholland, The Netherlands
Rescue mode: Hiding
File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/8356)
Commemoration
Date of Recognition: 21/01/1999
Righteous Commemorated with Tree/Wall of Honor: Wall of Honor
Ceremony organized by Israeli diplomatic delegation in: The Hague, Netherlands
Rescued Persons
Jacobs, Bob
Jacobs, Sander
Jacobs, Roosje
Rescue Story
Bastiaans, Jan & Cornelie Carolina Henriette Nina (Tengbergen), & Warsen Truus (Bastiaans)
When Bob Jacobs was a young child he fled Germany and went to live with Jan Bastiaans, a high school teacher in Haarlem, North Holland, and his wife, Cornelie. Jan and Cornelie had four children, three of whom were adults, and Truus (later Warsen), the Bastiaanses’ youngest daughter, who was still living at home. From 1937 two brothers from the Dutch East Indies, Jan and Carel Berenschot, whose parents had sent them to Holland for their education, also lived in the Bastiaanses’ home. In the summer of 1943, when Hanna Cohen-Chichou was trying to hide her parents, she contacted her former school friend Truus and asked her to help out. Truus’s parents consented to hide the couple. However, when Truus arrived in Amsterdam to pick up Mr. and Mrs. Cohen-Chichou she discovered that they had already fled to another hiding place. Consequently, Truus arranged for another Jewish couple, Roosje and Sander Jacobs, Bob’s parents, to hide in the shelter that had been prepared for the Cohens and she again traveled to South Amsterdam to pick up the couple. Roosje and Sander were hidden in the attic, where they slept in a large closet concealed by posters. The fugitive couple ate downstairs with their hosts. Only the Bastiaanses’ neighbors and their doctor knew that they were hiding Jews. In 1944, the situation in the Bastiaans household became more difficult when Jan fell seriously ill and died in the summer of that year. Then, just before winter 1944, the Bastiaanses’ married son, also called Jan (later a famous neurologist who treated Holocaust survivors suffering from KZ syndrome) came to live in his parents’ home with his wife, Helena, who gave birth to twins in December 1944. Soon after, the other two Bastiaans children returned home with their partners and thus there were 14 people living in the house. Before long, the food coupons ran out and the Resistance unit charged with supplying the Bastiaanses with food was caught. Jan and Carel Berenschot decided to leave the Bastiaanses’ home and head north, where food was still available. Cornelie managed to feed the rest of the household, driven by her strong anti-Nazi feelings and her solidarity with the persecuted Jews.
On January 21, 1999, Yad Vashem recognized Jan Bastiaans, his wife, Cornelie Carolina Henriette Nina Bastiaans-Tengebergen, and their daughter Truus Warsen-Bastiaans as Righteous Among the Nations.

Gezin 1

Huwelijkspartner: Cornelie Carolina Henriette Nina Tengbergen geb. 22 Feb 1883 overl. 16 Juni 1955
Huwelijk: 27 Juli 1914 Utrecht
Kinderen:
  Geertruida Johanna Stephanie Bastiaans Male geb. 5 MRT 1922 overl. 12 MRT 2014
  Jan Bastiaans Male geb. 27 MEI 1917 overl. 31 OKT 1997
  Charlotte Laurencia Bastiaans Male geb. 24 Juli 1915
  Henriette Carolina Bastiaans Male geb. 30 Aug 1920 overl. 20 Jan 2005