Henriette Berdenis van Berlekom
| Geslacht: | Vrouw | |
| Vader: | Lambertus Hendrik Berdenis van Berlekom | |
| Moeder: | Emilie Wilhelmina Adrienne van der Vegt | |
| Geboren: | 9 Sept 1920 | Hoogeveen |
| Overleden: | 23 Apr 2010 | Erickson, Manitoba, Canada |
| Aantekeningen: | Macey Henriette (1920 - 2010 ) Personal Information Last Name: Macey First Name: Henriette Berdenis Maiden Name: Berlekom van Alias: JET Date of Birth: 09/09/1920 Date of death: 01/01/2010 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Female Profession: CHILDRENS HOME OWNER Organization/ Religious order: Utrechts Kindercomite Place during the war: Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding Arranging shelter Other File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/5114) Commemoration Date of Recognition: 11/02/1992 Righteous Commemorated with Tree/Wall of Honor: Wall of Honor Ceremony organized by Israeli diplomatic delegation in: The Hague, Netherlands Ceremony held in Yad Vashem: Yes Honorary Citizenship of the State of Israel: Yes Rescued Persons Ehrlich, Herbert Schavrien, Deborah Schavrien, Judith Rescue Story Lier van, Geertruida E. Macey, Henriëtte Berdenis (van Berlekom) Geertruida (Truitje) van Lier was studying law in her hometown of Utrecht when the Germans invaded Holland. She postponed her studies and after six months of underground work, She and her friend Henriëtte (Jet) Berdenis van Berlekom* established a day-care center, which they named Kindjeshaven (Shelter for Children), in Utrecht. When the deportations began in July 1942, Truitje and Jet cleared as much space as possible for extra Jewish children, who came to the center before being moved to permanent shelters elsewhere. Most of the children who came to the center had been smuggled out of Amsterdam by members of the UKC. When this group was short of safe addresses, it could always rely on the Kindjeshaven to provide temporary refuge. Through the center, Truitje and Jet helped dozens of Jewish children. Two of them, Judith and Deborah Schavrien, twins, stayed at the Kindjeshaven for the duration of the war. Whenever there was a raid on the crèche, Truitje and Jet threatened to evict all the children, which included a number of illegitimate children fathered by German soldiers. This would cause the soldiers to be reprimanded by the Ortskommandant who functioned as the guardian of these children. This threat usually put them off. One of the low points was when Herbert Ehrlich, a Jewish infant whom Truitje and Jet looked after for nine months, died in March 1944. Even his illegal hospitalization could not cure him of pneumonia. In late 1944, the Sipo started looking for Truitje. She could no longer work at the Kindjeshaven and so she went into hiding with her fiancé in Culemborg, Gelderland, where she remained until the liberation. In the meantime, Jet continued working at the center until February 1945 and then moved the children to various safe houses. On February 11, 1992, Yad Vashem recognized Geertruida E. van Lier and Henriëtte Berdenis Macey-van Berlekom as Righteous Among the Nations. |
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| Huwelijkspartner: | John Ainslie Macey | |
| Huwelijk: | 3 Jan 1946 | De Bilt |