Willem Johan Caspers

Geslacht: Man
Vader: Willem Caspers
Moeder: Johanna van Loghem
Geboren: 26 Jan 1865 Wageningen
Overleden: 13 Nov 1948 Zeist
Beroep: hoofdonderwijzer
Aantekeningen: Last Name: Caspers
First Name: Willem Johan
Date of Birth: 26/01/1865
Date of death: 13/11/1948
Rescuer's fate: survived
Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS
Gender: Male
Place during the war: Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Rescue Place: Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Rescue mode: Hiding
File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/1711)
Mrs. Stodel-Brenner hid in the city of Utrecht with Willem Caspers and his daughter Johanna from autumn 1942 until the liberation of the Netherlands. It was especially dangerous because the Casperses’ neighbor was E. Drost, a notorious war criminal (executed in 1949). The distance between the two houses was less than four yards and Drost regularly visited the Casperses’ home. The Germans twice searched the Casperses’ house, once in the middle of the night. Mrs. Stodel was hidden under the wardrobe in Willem’s bedroom and was not detected. “My husband, my mother, and the rest of my family all died in concentration camps,” Mrs. Stodel wrote in her testimony to Yad Vashem, “but I survived thanks to the help of the Caspers family.”
On December 30, 1979, Yad Vashem recognized Willem Johan Caspers and his daughter, Johanna Caspers, as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Huwelijkspartner: Nieske Teunisje van Heukelom geb. 9 Aug 1865 overl. 26 MEI 1941
Huwelijk: 3 MEI 1890 Renkum
Kinderen:
  Niko Wilhelm Caspers Male geb. 19 MRT 1899
  Jan Caspers Male geb. 31 MRT 1892
  Anna Cornelia Elizabeth Caspers Male geb. 17 MRT 1897
  Willem Johan Caspers Male geb. 8 Feb 1891 overl. 8 Sept 1893
  Johanna Caspers Male geb. 4 Sept 1893 overl. 19 Nov 1988
  Willem Johan Caspers Male geb. 30 Juni 1895
  Johan Marinus Caspers Male geb. 15 Juli 1901
  Niko Anton Caspers Male geb. 1904 overl. 31 Dec 1932