Close-up postwar portrait of Dutch rescuers, Berend Philip Bakker and Jeltje Bakker-Woudsma.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 10518

Date: Circa 1960 - 1980
Variant Locale: Holland
Photo Designation: RESCUERS & RESCUED -- Netherlands
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sytske Huisman-Bakker

Biography: Sytske Huisman-Bakker is the daughter of Berend Philip Bakker and Jeltje Bakker-Woudsma. She was one of four children. Berend Bakker belonged to the Westerweel group, a rescue operation that smuggled dozens of Jewish refugees from Holland to Spain. He and his wife hid a Jewish child during the war named Harry Leo Davids. Harry's own parents perished, and after the war he went to live with his uncle from South Africa. In 1987 Berend and Jeitje Bakker were honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
Keyword: BAKKER, BEREND PHILIP
BAKKER-WOUDSMA, JELTJE
CLOSE-UPS
DUTCH
JEWS (DUTCH)
RESCUERS/RESCUE
RESCUERS/RESCUE (POSTWAR)
RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS
WOMEN
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Sytske Huisman-Bakker
: Record last modified: 2006-09-14 00:00:00
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