Petrus Brakeboer
| Geslacht: | Man | |
| Vader: | Antonius Brakeboer | |
| Moeder: | Anna Buis | |
| Geboren: | 13 MRT 1881 | Medemblik |
| Overleden: | 16 Jan 1945 | Oranienburg |
| Religie: | Rooms Katholiek | |
| Beroep: | landbouwer | |
| Aantekeningen: | Last Name: Brakeboer First Name: Petrus Date of Birth: 13/03/1881 Date of death: 16/01/1945 Rescuer's fate: murdered Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Religion: ROMAN CATHOLIC Gender: Male Place during the war: Opmeer, Noordholland, The Netherlands, Sachsenhausen, Camp, Germany, Vught, Camp Rescue Place: Opmeer, Noordholland, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/11984) Immediately after the start of the deportations of the Jews from the Netherlands in the summer of 1942, Salomon David van Emden (b. 1909 d. 1945) and his wife Henriette, née Roozendaal, (b. 1911 d. 1944) from the eastern town of Borne, had decided to try and find hiding places for their young daughter Fien (born 1938) and themselves. When in September that year they did not report for work in the East, the police published a search warrant for them in their Algemeen Politieblad on September 10, 1942. The van Emdens located a hiding address just in time. However, they soon had to leave and were taken to Petrus Brakeboer, a widower in his sixties, in the village of Opmeer (prov. North Holland). Petrus Brakeboer lived not far from where their daughter Fien was hidden, and she was taken once to see her parents. Even though the van Emdens were out of sight at all times, rumors spread that Petrus was hiding Jews. They were betrayed and a house search followed. On July 13, 1944, both van Emdens were arrested, as was Petrus. An official statement by Opmeers deputy mayor to the highest civil authority in the province, coldly reads: On Thursday, July 13, 1944, P. Brakeboer was arrested, on suspicion of providing accommodation to Jews. The van Emdens were sent to the Westerbork transit camp and from there to Auschwitz, where they both perished. Petrus was sent to the Vught concentration camp (KZ Herzogenbusch) and from there to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany on September 6, 1944 with the closing of the Vught camp. He succumbed there on January 16, 1945. Daughter Fien survived the war. She never knew where her parents had been in hiding and where they had been arrested, until in 2009 her daughter was contacted by the Westerbork memorial institution, which had received personal documents of Salomon van Emden from the Brakeboer children. On December 29, 2010, Yad Vashem recognized Petrus Brakeboer as Righteous Among the Nations. |
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| Huwelijkspartner: | Naatje Portegijs | geb. 22 Apr 1878 overl. 30 OKT 1941 |
| Huwelijk: | 17 Jan 1906 | Medemblik |