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Personal data Petrus Jacobus "Piet" Komen 

• Nickname is Piet.
• He was born on August 11, 1900 in Anna Paulowna, Noord-Holland, Nederland.
• Occupations:
• Bloembollenkweker.
• Exporteur.
• Fact: (onderscheiding) starting June 30, 1974 Righteous Among the Nations (Rechtvaardige onder de Volkeren).

  Verleend door Yad Vashem , Jerusalum Israël.

• Resident: Molenvaart 429, Anna Paulowna, Noord-Holland, Nederland.
• He died on April 2, 1976 in Tenerife, Spanje, he was 75 years old.
• He is buried on April 10, 1976 in Anna Paulowna, Noord-Holland, Nederland.
• A child of Johannes Komen and Maria Christina Strooper
• This information was last updated on January 28, 2021.

Household of Petrus Jacobus "Piet" Komen

He is married to Anna Eva Oetelmans.

They got married on June 19, 1929 at Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland, he was 28 years old.

Child(ren):

1. (Not public)
2. Catharina Maria Cornelia Komen  1931-1979
3. (Not public)
4. (Not public)
5. (Not public)
6. (Not public)
7. Margaretha Maria Catharina Komen  1939-1939
8. (Not public)

Notes about Petrus Jacobus "Piet" Komen

Piet en Annie Komen verleende onderduik bescherming tijdens de tweede wererldoorlog.
Van één van deze onderduiksters is onderstaand het verhaal (bron: Jos van Rijn).

Edith Gutter (later Gultz) was born in Leipzig, Germany, and fled to Holland with her parents in 1938, when she was 18. When they arrived in Amsterdam in 1940, the family once again found themselves subject to German persecution. At first, they hid with a business acquaintance of Edith's father, but they were soon forced to move on and decided to split up. That was the last time Edith saw her parents, who were later seized and deported to Auschwitz. From that time on, Edith moved from one acquaintance to another, staying for a short time with each. Friends of the family contacted a member of the underground who took her to a farm for a night and then to Petrus (Piet) and Anna Komen. Piet and Anna were flower growers in the village of Anna Paulowna, North Holland, and with them Edith finally found a more permanent home. They welcomed her and restored her self-confidence and will to live, reassuring her that they would never hand her over to the Germans, even if it endangered their lives.
Edith stayed with them from August 1943 until the end of the war, and Piet and Anna, who had seven children, shared their limited supply of food with her. The children and the neighbors were told she was a domestic, and did not know she was Jewish. During the many razzias when the Germans searched the house, Piet and Anna hid her and she often escaped detection by nothing less than a miracle.
On June 30, 1974, Yad Vashem recognized Petrus Jacobus Komen and his wife, Anna Eva Komen-Oetelmans, as Righteous Among the Nations.

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