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Personal data Joukje Smits 


Household of Joukje Smits

She is married to Johannes Grandia.

They got married on November 11, 1945 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, she was 28 years old.


Notes about Joukje Smits

Slachtoffer van de oorlog, heeft de oorlog overleefd.
Geboren op 17 april 1917 te Rotterdam
Beroep: Onderwijzeres
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Joukje werd op 13 juni 1944 gesrresteerd met 27 andere verzetstrijders in een distributiecentrum van illegale persoonsbewijzen aan de Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam.
Op 31 mei 1945 werd een "Lijst van uit Duitse concentratiekampen bevrijde Nederlandse politieke gevangenen die allen in goede welstand verkeren" gepubliceerd.
Joukje Smits (uit Bodegraven) stond op deze lijst.
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Wikipedia:
Joukje Grandia-Smits was een verzetsstrijder in Nederland tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Als onderwijzeres op de Christelijke Nijverheidsschol in Bodegraven kwam ze in 1940 in contact met Gerrit Jan van de Waal (alias Mees). Door zijn toedoen werd zij een van de eerste koeriersters van de Landelijke Organisatie voor Hulp aan Onderduikers (LO) onder de schuilnaam Clara.
Op 13 juni 1944 werd ze met 27 andere verzetsstrijders in Amsterdam verraden en gearresteerd. Met haar werden onder andere Jo Hessels, Hendrik van Wilgenburg en Ada van Keulen gevangengezet. (Van de 27 hebben slecht zeven de oorlog overleefd.) Ze werd naar Kamp Vught overgebracht en in september op transport gesteld naar Ravensbrück. In een interview met het Imperial War Museum vertelt ze onder meer hoe ze daar een conflict met de bewakers overleefde nadat een zandlorrie omsloeg.[1]
In oktober 1944 werd ze naar Dachau overgebracht, waar ze werd tewerkgesteld in het Agfacommando. Toen ze op 30 april 1945 werd bevrijd door de Amerikanen, woog ze nog 35 kg.
Na terugkomst in Rotterdam trad ze in dienst van de Politieke Opsporingsdienst. Later ging ze weer in het onderwijs werken en ging voorlichting geven aan de schooljeugd over de Tweede Wereldoorlog. In juni 1946 hield ze op de landelijke bijeenkomst van de LO-LKP een indrukwekkende toespraak over De erfenis uit de concentratiekampen die veel stof deed opwaaien.[2] Zij was jarenlang bestuurslid van de Vereniging Voormalig Verzet Zuid-Holland.
Op 11 november 1945 trouwde ze met Johannes Grandia. Ze kregen twee zonen.
Onderscheidingen:
Joukje Grandia-Smits was draagster van het Verzetsherdenkingskruis, van het Kruis van Erkentelijkheid van het Nationaal Verbond der Belgische Oorlogskruisen, van het Kruis van de Federatie van Europese Oud-Strijders en van de War medal of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ook was zij erelid van het Koninklijke Verbond der Veteranen van Koning Albert en van de National Defence Transportation Association (Benelux Chapter).
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Joukje Smits

Anne Smits
1833-1901
Joukjen Postma
1832-1900
Albertus Sportel
1840-1915
Wubgiena Reints
1852-1927
Gerben Smits
1863-1958

Joukje Smits
1917-1985

1945

Johannes Grandia
1909-1968


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    Historical events

    Birthday April 17, 1917

    Day of marriage November 11, 1945

    • The temperature on November 11, 1945 was between 4.3 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 7.7 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
    • In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
      • March 21 » World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
      • March 31 » World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
      • April 9 » The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
      • August 8 » The London Charter is signed by France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States, establishing the laws and procedures for the Nuremberg trials.
      • September 5 » Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
      • November 1 » The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.

    Day of death May 17, 1985

    • The temperature on May 17, 1985 was between 10.4 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (81%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
      • March 17 » Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
      • May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
      • July 17 » Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
      • August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
      • October 7 » Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MSAchille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
      • December 16 » Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.

    Day of burial May 22, 1985

    • The temperature on May 22, 1985 was between 8.8 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
      • January 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
      • April 19 » Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
      • May 25 » Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
      • July 20 » The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
      • August 7 » Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
      • November 13 » Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.
    

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