Piëta Vincentina Creutzberg

Geslacht: Vrouw
Vader: Jelis Jan Creutzberg
Moeder: Françoise Nellij van Stein Callenfels
Geboren: 7 MEI 1915 Blokzijl
Overleden: 19 Jan 1997 onbekend
Beroep: verpleegster
Religie: Ned. Hervormd
Aantekeningen: Last Name: Creutzberg
First Name: Pieta Vincentina
Date of Birth: 07/05/1915
Date of death: 19/01/1997
Rescuer's fate: survived
Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS
Religion: PROTESTANT
Gender: Female
Profession: NURSE
Place during the war: Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Rescue Place: Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Rescue mode: Hiding
File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/967)
On September 11, 1943, Peter Santcroos was born in a non-Jewish hospital in Naarden, North Holland. Nobody knew that his mother, Elizabeth, was Jewish. Piëta Creutzberg, a nurse, thought that the young mother might develop some confidence if she read to her from the Bible. Piëta instinctively chose to read from the Old Testament and Elizabeth soon began pouring her heart out to the nurse. "Nurse Creutzberg did not lose any time," Peter's father wrote in his testimony to Yad Vashem. "She took the baby, left the hospital, and brought him to her parents [the Reverend Jelis and Francoise Creutzberg] in Nijmegen, Gelderland, who took care of him for 16 months under the most terrible circumstances. [Peter remained there] until Nijmegen was liberated and we were able to collect our son in February 1945." During this time, the Japanese shot Jelis and Francoise's eldest son and the Germans shot Piëta's fiancé. "I would like to draw your attention," Mr. Santcroos wrote, "to the fact that the Reverend Creutzberg never baptized the child, but considered it a great joy and satisfaction to himself and his wife to return a Jewish child unharmed to his parents and to Jewry." After the war, one of the main streets in Nijmegen was named after Jelis-Jan Creutzberg.
On August 12, 1975, Yad Vashem recognized Pieta Vincentina Creutzberg and her parents, Jelis-Jan Creutzberg and Francoise Nelly Creutzberg-van Stein Callenfels, as Righteous Among the Nations.