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Catharina van der Horst - Rambonnet

Mrs. Van der Horst - Rambonnet was an acquaintance of Jan and Miep Gies.

Person

  • Catharina van der Horst - Rambonnet
  • Velp, Nederland Feb. 10, 1892
  • New York, USA 1979

Catharina van der Horst - Rambonnet She was married to Dr. Hendrik van der Horst, director of N.V. Ing. bur. Lemet Chromium in Hilversum.[1] In that company, she held the position of Supervisory Director.[2] She took Jan en Miep Gies's landlady, Mrs. Stoppelman, into hiding in 1942.[3] Her second son Kuno Lodewijk went into hiding with Miep and Jan in Hunzestraat.[4] She died in 1979, 87 years old.

Source personal data.[1] Addresses: Alexanderlaan 22, Hilversum;[1] Diependaalselaan 27 (now 114).[5]

Footnotes

  1. a, b, c H.P. van den Aardweg, J.P.J.C. Hüllstrung (red.), Persoonlijkheden in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in woord en beeld. Nederlanders en hun werk, Amsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendorf, 1938, p. 700.
  2. ^ Laarder Courant de Bel, 25 mei 1937.
  3. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 10 October 1942, 1st, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019. Apart from Mrs. Stoppelman, she also took other Jews into hiding. Victoria Noriega, More than a footnote: the van der Horsts, Anne Frank, and World War II resistance, RhetTech: Undergraduate Journal in Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication, (2018) 1, p. 6-29.
  4. ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Getuigenarchief, Gies, Miep: Jan Gies in interview 1992.
  5. ^ Schriftelijke mededeling Publiekszaken Gemeente Hilversum, september 2001.

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