Johanna Adolfina van der Grift

Geslacht: Vrouw
Vader: Franciscus Jacobus van der Grift
Moeder: Christina Lensselink
Geboren: 19 MEI 1892 Utrecht
Aantekeningen: Last Name: Franken
First Name: Johanna Adolfina
Maiden Name: Grift van der
Alias: JO
Date of Birth: 19/05/1892
Date of death: 02/12/1982
Rescuer's fate: survived
Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS
Gender: Female
Profession: WARDEN
Place during the war: Maartensdijk, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Rescue Place: Maartensdijk, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Rescue mode: Supplying basic goods
File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/1384)
Johanna (Jo) Franken-van der Grift worked with Catherina Brouwer-De Groot*, a nurse, at a Dutch Green Cross public health clinic in the city of Utrecht which was located on the first floor of the three-story house shared by the two women. Jo was a warden and lived on the first floor, while Catherina occupied the other two floors. The Leefsma’s were family friends of Catherina’s and she offered the parents and their 12-year-old son a place to hide from November 1942 until May 1945. She could not have hidden Jews without Jo’s consent and help, said Jacques Leefsma. The arrangement was that during the day the son, Raphael, had to stay upstairs with his parents, but he spent his nights on the first floor in Jo’s part of the building. Although Jo, who was then unmarried, had not intended to work for the Green Cross for very long, she remained in her job until the end of the war because a new, potentially untrustworthy warden would have endangered the Leefsmas. Hiding the family also meant she could not invite any friends to the house, which curtailed her social life. Jacques wrote in his testimony that without Jo’s courageous material and moral support and her loving care he would not have survived the war.
On May 31, 1978, Yad Vashem recognized Johanna Adolfina Franken-van der Grift as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Huwelijkspartner: Gerrit Franken
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