Catharina Margaretha de Groot
| Geslacht: | Vrouw | |
| Vader: | Frank de Groot | |
| Moeder: | Maria Josina Timmermans | |
| Geboren: | 21 Apr 1907 | Amsterdam |
| Religie: | Rooms Katholiek | |
| Aantekeningen: | Last Name: Brouwer First Name: Catherina Maiden Name: Groot de Date of Birth: 21/04/2007 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Female Profession: NURSE Place during the war: Maartensdijk, Utrecht, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Maartensdijk, Utrecht, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding Supplying basic goods Arranging shelter File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/145) Catherina de Groot (later Brouwer) was working as a public health nurse in Maartensdijk, Utrecht, when the war broke out. She knew Jacques Leefsma and his family through her work and when the Leefsmas decided to hide with a friend of theirs in the area, in the summer of 1942, Catherina promised to help them if they should need it. In November 1942, they could no longer stay the friends home, and nurse de Groot, as she was known, came to pick them up. She took Jacques and his wife, Corry, into her home and helped find hiding places for 12-year-old Raphael and Alexander, aged five. After nine months of hiding in Zwolle, Raphael joined his parents in Catherinas apartment and they stayed there for two and a half years until the end of the war. Catherina had a small two-room apartment situated in the Groene Kruis health fund building in Maartensdijk. She continued to work as a nurse throughout the war and took great care to keep the presence of Jews in her house a secret. In 1944, she also took in Alexander Leefsma, who was sickly and undernourished. Catherina was also active in the underground, distributing ration cards to those in hiding in the area and providing some of them with forged identity cards. During the hunger winter of 1944--1945, she rode on her bicycle for hundreds of miles, at great risk to her own life, to search for the food which could still be found in small quantities in the east and north of the country. On June 15, 1965, Yad Vashem recognized Catherina Brouwer-de Groot as Righteous Among the Nations. |
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| Huwelijkspartner: | M. Brouwer | |
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