Aron van Dijk

Van Dijk

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Aron van Dijk, birth 10 MRT 1879 Venlo, died 13 OKT 1939 Apeldoorn, son of Jacob van Dijk and Catharina Eisman
he was a patient in the Apeldoornse Bosch.
Married 16 Jun 1904 Zaandam to:
Kaatje Blik, birth 30 MRT 1869 Amsterdam, died 20 Feb 1919 Amsterdam, buried Diemen A 46 41, daughter of Isaac Jacob Blik and Anaatje Barends Matteman

1) Anna van Dijk, birth 24 Feb 1905 Amsterdam, died 14 Jan 1948 Weesperkaspel
She was the only woman who was sentenced after WW2 to be executed for betraying more than 100 Jews to the SD in 1943. She had been arrested and did so while imprisoned.
She was a difficult child and starting from her fifth year was under constant care of a pediatrician. she owned a hat store in Amsterdam at the Nieuwendijk untill the Nazi government closed the business. On Easterday 1943 she was arrested by th e SD detective Pieter Schaaap of the Jewish Department of the Amsterdam police and was released after she had agreed to work for the S . She pretended to work for the illegality, could provide hiding addresses and false id papers. Her address acte d as a trap, where many of her victims were arrested, among whom her own brother and his family. Only a few of them survived the camps.
She was arrested on 20 June 1945 in the home of Miep de Regt in Rotterdam, her case was heard on 24 February 1947 in Amsterdam at the Special Court for the betrayal of about 700 people who were hiding, even though she admitted to have been a psyc hiatric patient. On 27 September 1947 the Special Appeals Court confirmed her sentence, het request for pardon was refused. She was executed on 13 January 1948 in Fort Bijlmer in the then municipality Wesperkaspel (now Bijlmermeer, municipality Am sterdam). She was baptised a Roman Catholic the evening before her execution.

Her husband divorced her because she had become a lesbian and went to live together with Johanna Maria de Regt.

sources: winkipedia;
boeken-Velleman: 'Breekbaar maar niet gebroken,het verhaal van een Auschwitz overlevende';
K.Groen (1994): 'Als slachtoffers daders worden, de zaak van joodse verrader Ans van Dijk', Baarn publisher Ambo ISBN 90 263 1328 4 ;
Rene Kok and Erik Somers (1991): 'Documentaire Nederland en de Tweede Wereldoorlog, aflevering 52: De Afrekening', Zwolle, publisher Waanders ISBN90 6630 952 0;
Trouw: Gexecuteerd: een verraadster, Joods en lesbisch. to:
Abraham Querido, birth 15 Feb 1899 Amsterdam, died 30 Jun 1944 Blechhammer, son of Izaac Querido and Sara Pezaro

2) Jacob van Dijk, birth 13 MEI 1907 Amsterdam, died 9 Jul 1943 Sobibor
the family was betrayed, see the note at his sister Anne. to:
Marianne Levy, birth 25 Feb 1909 Amsterdam, died 9 Jul 1943 Sobibor

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Aron van Dijk to:
Sara Sousa, birth 14 MEI 1882 Amsterdam, daughter of David Leendert Sousa and Roosje Soesan

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