Hilligje Sieders
| Geslacht: | Vrouw | |
| Vader: | Hendrik Sieders | |
| Moeder: | Johanna Koster | |
| Geboren: | 14 Juli 1913 | Hoogeveen |
| Overleden: | 31 OKT 2009 | Duivendrecht |
| Aantekeningen: | Beukel van den Hilligje (1913 - 2009 ) Personal Information Last Name: Beukel van den First Name: Hilligje Maiden Name: Sieders Alias: Hillie Date of Birth: 14/07/1913 Date of death: 31/10/2009 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Religion: PROTESTANT Gender: Female Profession: HOUSEWIFE Place during the war: Duivendrecht, Noordholland, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Duivendrecht, Noordholland, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding Supplying basic goods Providing forged documents Arranging shelter File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/5113) Commemoration Date of Recognition: 18/06/2007 Righteous Commemorated with Tree/Wall of Honor: Wall of Honor Ceremony organized by Israeli diplomatic delegation in: The Hague, Netherlands Rescued Persons Zaligman, Dwinger, Vroukje Rescue Story Beukel van den, Arie 13.02.1912 - 20.5.1995 Beukel van den-Sieders, Hilligje 14.07.1913 Hoogeveen - 31.10.2009 Duivendrecht Arie van den Beukel worked in a slaughterhouse in Amsterdam, where he became acquainted with Salomon Zaligman, (born 18.3.1891 Auschwitz 30.8.1942) who was a meat dealer in the city. When in 1941, Zaligman, as a Jew, was no longer allowed to enter the slaughterhouse, Arie continued to provide him and his wife, Vroukje, née Dwinger (b. 11.8.1894) also in her fifties, with meat as much as he could. He did the same for Simon and Catharine de Wilde. Soon after the onset of the deportations of the Jews to camps in the East in the summer of 1942, Salomon Zaligman was picked up from his home and deported to Auschwitz, where he was immediately murdered. Vroukje stayed behind until April 1943, when she received her own orders to report for work in the East. At that point she remembered Arie van den Beukel and asked him to please come by for her to say goodbye and thank him before she would leave. And so he did. Vroukje had already packed and was ready to move. When she said her goodbyes while crying loudly, Arie instantly ordered her to take off her star and come to his home in the adjacent village of Duivendrecht. Arie realized that he was taking a serious risk. He and his wife, Hilligje (Hillie), had two very young with a third on the way. The van den Beukels did not, therefore, consider it possible to keep Vroukje for a long time. Thus Arie managed to obtain false papers in the name of Cornelia Buning and also to locate a hiding address for her with a baker in the village of Doorn (prov. Utrecht). However, soon thereafter Vroukje came again to the door of the van den Beukels: she had successfully escaped house-to-house searches in the village, but the situation there had become to dangerous for her. Arie and Hillie van den Beukel took her in immediately and told her that she could stay. The children were to call her Aunt Buni, based on her false name. She helped in the household and assisted in taking care of the now three small children. She stayed inside at all times; no one was to know that she was even there. She, therefore, slept in a folding bed in a back room so as not to arouse suspicion because of a surplus bed in case of a house search. Even during the infamous Hungerwinter of 1944-1945, when there was hardly any food, or gas or electricity, for anyone in the western parts of the country, Vroukje was allowed to stay on. The van den Beukels shared the very little they had with her. Hillie and a neighbor, who knew the secret, went out on food treks, whereas Vroukje stayed at home with the children. During that period, German soldiers did sporadic house searches mainly looking for food and blankets, but, luckily, Vroukjes identity was not detected. Vroukje stayed with the van den Beukels until the liberation of the area in May 1945. She kept in touch with her rescuers until her death in 1972. On June 18, 2007, Yad Vashem recognized Arie van den Beukel and Hilligje van den Beukel-Siders as Righteous Among the Nations. |
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| Huwelijkspartner: | Arie van den Beukel | geb. 13 Feb 1912 overl. 20 MEI 1995 |
| Huwelijk: | 12 OKT 1939 | Hoogeveen |