Albertina Maria van de Bilt

Geslacht: Vrouw
Vader: Eduardus Franciscus van de Bilt
Moeder: Alida Jansje Blokker
Geboren: 18 Jan 1916 Amsterdam
Overleden: 7 Feb 2001 Maastricht
Religie: Rooms Katholiek
Aantekeningen: Bilt van de Albertine (1916 - ? )
Personal Information
Last Name: Bilt van de
First Name: Albertine
Maria
Alias: TINI
Date of Birth: 18/01/1916
Rescuer's fate: survived
Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS
Gender: Female
Profession: PHYSICIAN
Organization/ Religious order: Utrechts Kindercomite
LO - Landelijke Organisatie
Place during the war: Arnhem, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Amsterdam, Noordholland, The Netherlands
Rescue Place: Amsterdam, Noordholland, The Netherlands
Arnhem, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Rescue mode: Arranging shelter
Other
File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/1752)
Commemoration
Date of Recognition: 03/01/1980
Righteous Commemorated with Tree/Wall of Honor: Tree
Ceremony organized by Israeli diplomatic delegation in: The Hague, Netherlands
Ceremony held in Yad Vashem: Yes
Rescued Persons
Themans, Henri, Hartog
Ten Brink, Lieme de, Anna, Rachel, Nanny
Vogel, Emmerik, Leny
Emmerik, First name unknown
Vogel, Max
Rescue Story
Bilt van de, Albertine Maria
Albertine (Tini) van de Bilt was staying with her parents in Arnhem in the summer of 1942 when they were visited by Paul Terwindt*, a member of the Utrecht Children’s Committee (UKC), who brought with him two Jewish children for the van de Bilts to hide. Tini decided she was going to help Paul and he gave her the address of a Jewish couple in Amsterdam who needed assistance finding safe houses for children and who were working together with several Joodsche Raad people. The couple had made contact, via Paul’s sister, with a bank employee from Panningen, Limburg, who was a member of the local LO and had many connections. He provided the required addresses. It was not long before Tini was fully involved in helping Jewish children. She fetched some herself from Amsterdam, where she met Virrie Cohen from the crèche, and she was in contact with the C.I.Z., a Jewish hospital. The Resistance work was looking for hideouts in north and central Limburg and taking on the care of the Jews already hidden in the area. Gradually, the network around Tini and Jan grew, until in the middle of 1943 contact was established with the LO and from that time on they worked within its framework. They were responsible for the care of a total of 114 Jewish children. Around August 1944 Tini was forced to relocate a little girl called Betsie, who she placed with an elderly widower, Christiaan Tielen, and his five unmarried children in America, Limburg. The eldest son, Johannes (Sjeng*) and daughter Maria (Gon*) looked after the child. When Tini herself had to go into hiding shortly afterwards, she remembered the Tielens and went to stay with them until the liberation in November 1944. Almost all the Jews that Tini helped survived the war.
On January 3, 1980, Yad Vashem recognized Albertine Maria van de Bilt as Righteous Among the Nations.