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Personal data Aleida Drent 


Household of Aleida Drent

She is married to Lucas Koops.

They got married on September 14, 1933 at Assen (Dr), she was 24 years old.Source 2


Notes about Aleida Drent

HAMILTON, Ontario - The families of Lucas Koops and Hendrik Veenstra recently received the title of Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem organization of Israel for their late parents who shielded Jewish children from the Nazis during the occupation of the Netherlands over fifty years ago. The title includes a listing on the Righteous Honor Wall at the Yad Vashem centre in Jerusalem.

The requests to honour Lucas and Aleida Drent Koops and Hendrik and Theresa Veenstra were made by the individuals they cared for at the time. Mrs. Miriam Berger Shoshani who now lives in Israel, was hiding with the Koops family from 1942 to 1945, disguised as a nanny for the couple's four children. The Koops family also hid two other Jews in their home in Zaandam, a town north of Amsterdam. After immigrating to Canada, Mr. Koops established Koops Travel, a firm which since has gotten new owners and a new name.

Survivor Philip Plas arrived at the Veenstra home in Kootstertille as a sickly child. He was nursed back to health by Theresa Veenstra whose husband was deeply involved in the resistance work and mostly away from home. Along with others in the village, the Veenstra home frequently was raided by the Nazis who suspected that the residents there were involved in 'illegal' activities. Plas who resides in the Netherlands and has kept in touch with the Veenstras was never discovered during the raids. Plas and several others traveled from the Netherlands to be present for the award ceremony.

The Koops and Veenstra posthumous conferrals are added to an increasing list of Dutch immigrant families in Canada who have received the Yad Vashem recognition.

The Yad Vashem commission which awards the title, documents the circumstances for authenticity, including the motivation of the rescuers, before a decision is made. To date, there are over 16,000 people who have been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, involving 7,500 rescue cases.

Alieda Drent met her husband Luke through her girlfriend Gezina Brink
who was a full cousin to Lucas koops, and Lucas use to visit them in
the summer holidays, They dated for 4 or 5 years and use to write
twice a week, Luke would get very upset if a letter did not arrive
when expected.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Aleida Drent

Alle Drent
1843-1924
Grietien Alderts
1841-1929
Jan Alders
1849-1891
Klara Koops
1848-1913
Jan Drent
1867-1954

Aleida Drent
1908-1986

1933

Lucas Koops
1909-1993


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Assen, 1908
  2. Huwelijksregister Assen, 1933

Historical events

Birthday December 19, 1908

  • The temperature on December 19, 1908 was between 1.3 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
    • January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
    • January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
    • April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
    • July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
    • September 16 » The General Motors Corporation is founded.
    • November 25 » A fire breaks out on SSSardinia as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour, resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people.

Day of marriage September 14, 1933

  • The temperature on September 14, 1933 was between 7.8 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 11.7 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
    • January 24 » The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing the beginning and end of terms for all elected federal offices.
    • March 12 » Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
    • May 15 » All military aviation organizations within or under the control of the RLM of Germany were officially merged in a covert manner to form its Wehrmacht military's air arm, the Luftwaffe.
    • September 12 » Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
    • October 14 » Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.
    • November 15 » Thailand has its first election.

Day of death August 10, 1986

  • The temperature on August 10, 1986 was between 11.0 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded 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 Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1986: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
    • January 13 » A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
    • February 16 » The Soviet liner MSMikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
    • March 4 » The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
    • April 28 » The United States Navy aircraft carrier USSEnterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USSCoral Sea.
    • July 6 » Davis Phinney becomes the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
    • November 5 » USSRentz, USSReeves and USSOldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.


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