Hilbert Eising

Geslacht:	Man
Vader:	Albert Eising
Moeder:	Roelofje Oosterloo
Geboren:	29 Sept 1912	Hijken, Beilen
Aantekeningen:	Last Name: Eising First Name: Hilbert Date of Birth: 01/01/1909 Date of death: 02/10/1974 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Male Place during the war: Hijken, Drenthe, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Hijken, Drenthe, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding Supplying basic goods Providing forged documents Arranging shelter File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/10803) Helena (Nellie) Wijler (later Ilana Avni), born in 1925 into a well-to-do Jewish family in Rotterdam, was in hiding close to her native city in 1943, when she learned that her parents had been transferred to Barneveld, to a castle that was to serve as an assembly place for about 700 ''important' and well connected Dutch Jews, made to believe that they would be protected there and not be sent to 'work in the East'. She decided to join them there. When in September 1943 all were to be sent after all to the Westerbork transit camp, the last station before deportation, Helena's parents managed to escape. Helena, however, was sent to Westerbork, where she succeeded in obtaining work in the camp hospital, located on the outskirts of the camp. One day, she discovered a small hole in the barbed wire around the camp. One evening in September 1944 when all the "Barneveld Jews" were to be deported to the East, Helena, then 19 years old, managed to crawl through the hole at night and hide in a bush some distance from the camp. She stayed there through the night, making sure that no one would see her. Three nights later, Hilbert Eising, a local woods guard in his early thirties, passed by, heard some vague noise from the bushes and saw Helena, who was exhausted and thoroughly wet from the rain. After she told her story, Eising took her further into the woods to thicker bushes and told her to stay put until he would return. Indeed, that evening he returned with food and told her that she should temporarily stay in an abandoned shack close to his home in the village of Hijken (prov. Drenthe), until he would be able to find her a more permanent hiding place. He then discussed the situation with his wife Tine and both decided to open their own home for her even though they lived in a very small house, consisting of 2 rooms, with their three young children. Helena soon recovered. Now called Nellie, she helped out with the care of the children and sewed them new clothing. When Tine again became pregnant, it was considered safer to look for another hiding address for Nellie. In December 1944, Nellie moved on with the false papers she had received, to again join her parents, who were also in hiding under false identities. There she stayed until the liberation of the area in the spring of 1945. When asked why they had taken such risks to themselves, Tine said: Hilbert was no hero ; a person in need came his way and she had to be helped." Helena immigrated to Israel and lost touch with her rescuers until contact was restored with their children in the early 2000's after both Hilbert and Tine had already passed away. On April 30, 2006, Yad Vashem recognized Hilbert Eising and Tine Eising-Kiers as Righteous among the Nations.

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Huwelijkspartner:	Trijntje Kiers	geb. 18 Juli 1912
Huwelijk:	8 Juli 1936	Assen