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

Photograph | Photograph Number: 10518
Close-up postwar portrait of Dutch rescuers, Berend Philip Bakker and Jeltje Bakker-Woudsma.

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

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

About This Photograph

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.

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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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