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Hetty Voûte
Dutch Resistance fighter / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henriëtte ("Hetty") Voûte (June 12, 1918–January 16, 1999) was a Dutch Resistance fighter who was declared Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem on 24 March 1988 for her work rescuing Dutch Jewish children whose parents had been deported to Nazi concentration camps during World War II.[1][2][3]
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Born | Henriëtte Voûte (1918-06-12)12 June 1918 |
Died | 16 January 1999(1999-01-16) (aged 80) |
Other names | Hetty |
Occupation | Dutch Resistance (Utrechts Kindercomité) |
Parent(s) | Paul Antoine Voûte, Jr. and Pauline Hermine Elisabeth (Pierson) Voûte |
Relatives | Jan Lodewijk Voûte, Paul Antoine Voûte, Jan Reinier Voûte, Allard Voûte, Nicolaas Gerard Voûte, and Pauline Hermine Elisabeth Voûte |
Awards | Righteous Among the Nations (1988) |
Under increasing scrutiny by Nazi sympathizers, she was forced to go into hiding in February 1943 for personal safety reasons, but resumed her rescue and resistance work within weeks, deeming the lives of the children she was helping as important as, or more important than her own. Arrested in June 1943 for her rescue work as a member of the Utrechts Kindercomité (Utrecht Children’s Committee or UKC), she was incarcerated, and moved from one jail to another until being transferred to the detention camp at Herzogenbusch in Vught. She was then later deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany. Surviving until the camp was liberated, she returned home to the Netherlands, married and had children.[1][2]