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Persoonlijke gegevens Willemijntje Asbeek Brusse 

• Zij is geboren op 16 maart 1893 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
• Geïmmigreerd op 11 maart 1925 vanuit New York City, New York, United States.Bron 3
• Geïmmigreerd op 4 februari 1933 vanuit New York City, New York, United States.Bron 3
• Woonachtig in het jaar 1930: Chicago, Illinois, USA.Bron 4
• (Address) op 1938-1979 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands: Cilliersstraat #20.
• (moved) in het jaar 1938 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands: back to Netherlands from USA.
• (moved) in het jaar 1979 in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten: back to the USA to join her daughter.
• (Honours) op 19 mei 1986 in NewYork, New York, USA: "Medal of the Righteous Gentil" from Yad Vashem.
• (FamilySearch ID) : L24K-YB4.
• Zij is overleden op 11 november 1993 in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten, zij was toen 100 jaar oud.Bron 1
• Een kind van Johan Christiaan Asbeek Brusse en Joanna Maria Gerken
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 6 december 2016.

Gezin van Willemijntje Asbeek Brusse

Zij is getrouwd met Pieter Koster.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 1 april 1914 te Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands, zij was toen 21 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Still born child Koster  1914-1914
2. Marianne (Marion) Koster  1915-2005 
3. Willemijntje (Ester) Koster  ± 1918-± 1983

Het echtpaar is gescheiden 5 juni 1947 te Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Notities over Willemijntje Asbeek Brusse

Willemijntje or Willemina as she was called in the USA, had a long and diversified life. As a young mother she immigrated with her husband and 2 young daughters to Chicago. During the depression years in 1937 the family decided to return to Holland because of the hardships and without family in the USA.
During the war Willemijntje began an underground resistant fighter and sheltered Jewish people from the Nazis in her home. Her daughter Marianne married a Jewish doctor in Amsterdam and in 1979 when her daughter and husband moved to the USA to live with their only child in New Jersey, Willemijntje followed, and 3 generations lived together. In 1987, Willemijntje (at age 93) received the "Medal of the Righteous Gentile for her bravery during the second world war.

In 1942, two brothers, Manfred Klafter( husband of her daughter Willemijntje or Ester) and Harry Klafter (later changed to Zvi Eyal), were deported from Amsterdam to Westerbork( a Nazi concentration camp in the Netherlands). They were interned in the camp for two years before staging a bold escape and returning to Amsterdam in September 1944. On their arrival in Amsterdam, Wilhelmina Asbeek-Brusse safely hid the brothers until the war's end. Manfred and Harry knew Wilhelmina, who was otherwise known as "Tante Cos" or "Oma" and were aware that she had been active in the Resistance since the beginning of the war. Wilhelmina had two daughters who had converted to Judaism in 1941 as an act of protest against the Nazis. Even under great duress, during the infamous hunger winter, Wilhelmina shared everything she had with the four Jews she was harboring. Over and above hiding Jews and preparing additional secret hideouts for use in times of danger, Wilhelmina also hid the material possessions of some of her Jewish friends, returning them untouched at the end of the war. Furthermore, her activities included one famous incident when she braved all odds to smuggle out lists of names of members of the Resistance from the office of an anti-Nazi organization in Amsterdam, and then burn them. This heroic act saved many from arrest and possible death. Wilhelmina did not perform any of these humane acts out of specific religious or ideological conviction, but because, in her own words, "I just believe a person is a person. " When her name was first put forward to be honored by Yad Vashem in 1965, she refused to hear anything of it. Over 20 years later, aged 93, she finally agreed to receive a certificate of honor.
Willemijntje showed up at the Israeli Embassy in New York with 12 people representing 5 generation.(her 71 year old daughter Marion Leisen, 52 year old grand-daughter Daisy Wexler, four of her five great-grand-children and six great-great-grand-children).
Willemijntje spend the rest of her life in New Jersey were she died at age 100 in 1993.

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