(Jewish Group) Berendina Eman, a Dutch rescuer of Jews and concentration camp survivor, dies at 99
Berendina Eman, a Dutch-American woman who helped save dozens of Jews during the Holocaust and survived a concentration camp, has died. She was 99.
Eman and her fiance, resistance hero Hein Sietsma, began their rescue efforts in 1942, two years after the Nazis occupied the Netherlands, according to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust commemoration authority. They worked in what was known as the Hein, a group that provided Jews with hiding places and food, among other services.
Eman died Tuesday at her home in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
In 1998, Yad Vashem recognized Eman as a Righteous Among the Nations, Israel’s title for non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. Sietsma received the title posthumously; he was arrested and murdered by the Nazis in 1945.
Berendina Eman, left, walking with Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima in Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 2, 2015. (Courtesy of the Dutch Embassy in the United States)
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