Grietje Star

Geslacht:	Vrouw
Vader:	Willem Star
Moeder:	Cornelia Ravensbergen
Geboren:	9 Apr 1909	Rijnsburg
Aantekeningen:	Last Name: Egmond van First Name: Grietje Maiden Name: Star Date of Birth: 1909 Date of death: 25/06/2005 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Female Place during the war: Rijnsburg, Zuidholland, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Rijnsburg, Zuidholland, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/12259) Henriette Klein, born in 1933, was the eldest of the three children of Jozua and Rosi Klein (née Mendel) from the far north of the country. In 1941, the family was forcibly moved away from the coast and went to live in Leiden (prov. North-Holland), where Rosi's parents operated a boarding house. In March 1942, Jozua was arrested under the pretense of a crime he had not committed. He was subsequently deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Germany, where he perished in July that same year. Rosi, now left with three small children, became severely depressed, and was no longer able to take care of them. Henriette, called Rita, then nine years old, tried to run the household as much as she could, with the help by friends and neighbors. When in March 1943, those Jews still remaining in the town of Leiden were to be deported, their neighbors, the Stoffels*, urged them to immediately go into hiding. Places were located for each of the Klein children, as well as for Rosi. Rita was taken to Jan and Grietje van Egmond in the nearby village of Rijnsburg. The couple, both in their mid-thirties, had four children of their own, the eldest around eight. They had earlier taken in some children from Rotterdam that had suffered massive bombing with the German invasion in May 1940. Thus, Rita was presented as yet another child from Rotterdam. Now going by the name of Rita Roelofs, she was able to join the other children at school. She soon felt at home with the van Egmonds, and their children enjoyed a new older sister. Jan and Grietje took the risk, even though there were German house searches in the area. German forces, assisted by Dutch police, were looking for resistance people and hidden Jews, as it was well known that a large number of Jews were indeed hidden in the village (see the file of Piet van Egmond*). As soon as a warning was received, Jan took Rita on his bicycle to his brother in a neighboring village under the cover of night. He took her back when the immediate danger had passed. Other times, she was kept out of sight. Rosi Klein as well as her three children, all survived the war in their respective hiding places. Some years later the family immigrated to the United States. Rita stayed in touch with the van Egmonds. On November 8, 2011, Yad Vashem recognized Jan van Egmond and Grietje van Egmond-Star as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Huwelijkspartner:	Jan van Egmond	geb. 20 MEI 1908 overl. 8 MRT 1990
Huwelijk:
Kinderen:
	Willem van Egmond	geb. 12 Aug 1936 overl. 21 Juli 2001