Benjamin van der Hoek‏‎

Benjamin Vanderhoek

• U.S. Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
• Birth: July 8 1913
• Death: Mar 28 2000
• Last residence: Hinsdale, Illinois 60521, USA

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Benjamin van der Hoek‏‎ #412‎, zoon van Levie van der Hoek en Grietje de Haan‏.

Geboren ‎8 jul 1913 (3 Tamuz 5673) Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland‎, bron: Elburg, Lieneke en Barend, ovl. ‎28 mrt 2000 (21 Adar II 5760) River Forest, Illinois, USA‎, 86 jaar, bron: Mail diversen

Gehuwd ‎6 mrt 1940 (26 Adar 5700) Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland, bron: Elburg, Lieneke en Barend (60 jaar gehuwd) met:

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‎woman Ferdinande van Dam‏‎ #411‎, dochter van Jakob van Dam en Rosa Benima‏.

Geboren ‎24 mrt 1917 (1 Nisan 5677) Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland‎, bron: Elburg, Lieneke en Barend, ovl. ‎2016‎, 98 of 99 jaar

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‎man Jacques van der Hoek‏‎ #413‎ relatie met ‎Rachel Mayerowitz‎

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‎woman Rose Mirjam van der Hoek‏‎ #419‎ relatie met ‎Victor Mirelman‎

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When the Netherlands were occupied in May 1940, the Jewish van der Hoek (later, Vanderhoek) family lived in the central town of Hilversum, where Benjamin was a teacher at a local high school. In 1941, he was forced out of his job, and in early 1942 the family was forced by the Germans to relocate to one of the Jewish areas in Amsterdam. In the summer of 1942, the Germans in cooperation with the Dutch police undertook house searches to find Jews who had not reported for ‘work in the East’. They forced themselves into the van der Hoeks’ home. Benjamin, his wife Fernande (née van Dam) and their son Jack Yehudi, who was born on New Year’s Day 1941, managed to flee over the rooftop. Benjamin immediately contacted a colleague in Hilversum, Anton van de Kamp*, who was active in a local resistance cell. The three van der Hoeks fled to Anton’s, where they stayed until Benjamin and Fernande were taken in by Jacob and Adriana Verheul*. Their son Jack stayed with Anton for about a year, until the latter learned in July 1943 that the neighbors openly suspected that the child was Jewish. Jack was then moved on to another active resistance person, Adolf Monhemius, who took him to his parental home in Hollandsche Rading (prov. Utrecht), where he also lived. Jack was introduced to the outside world as the illegitimate child of the youngest Monhemius son. Already in hiding with the Monhemius family since the summer of 1942 was the sister of Jack’s grandmother, Claar van Haren-van Dam. Jack became particularly close to daughter Emmy Monhemius, then in her early twenties, with whom he felt very much at ease. Jack was allowed to go to kindergarten and to play with the neighbors’ children.

Jack’s parents came to visit him a number of times, in spite of the serious danger. Jack never recognized them as his biological parents, from whom he had been separated when he was just half a year old. On one such occasion, in the winter, Benjamin fell off his bicycle on a slippery side road on his way to see Jack, and broke his leg. Adolf, who accompanied him, immediately took him to a local hospital, after first removing Benjamin’s undershirt prayer shawl that orthodox Jews wear daily.

In April 1943, Adolf also located a hiding address for 16 months’ old Gilah van der Hoek, Jack’s niece, with the Zwanikken* family.

All who were helped by the Monhemius family survived the war in their respective hiding places. Jack stayed in touch with the Monhemiuses also after the war.

On March 2, 2011, Yad Vashem recognized Johannes Monhemius, his wife Emma Marie Monhemius-van Essen and their son Adolf Elize Hendrik Monhemius as Righteous Among the Nations.