Close-up postwar portrait of Dutch rescuers, Berend Philip Bakker and Jeltje Bakker-Woudsma.
Overview
- Caption
- Close-up postwar portrait of Dutch rescuers, Berend Philip Bakker and Jeltje Bakker-Woudsma.
- Date
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Circa 1960 - 1980
- Locale
- The Netherlands
- Variant Locale
- Holland
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sytske Huisman-Bakker
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Sytske Huisman-Bakker
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- 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.
- Record last modified:
- 2006-09-14 00:00:00
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1160147
