Johannes Kleiman holds the title Righteous Among the Nations, given by Yad Vashem to those who saved Jews during the Holocaust at risk to themselves.
The record lists Johannes Kleiman as Concealer of Anne Frank (1896-1959).
Johannes Kleiman was born at Koog aan de Zaan in 1896. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands.
By occupation Johannes Kleiman was businessperson and resistance fighter - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
The people honoured as Righteous Among the Nations were overwhelmingly ordinary; what distinguished them was that they acted while their neighbours did not.
Recognition: Righteous Among the Nations (1972).
Johannes Kleiman died in 1959, aged 63. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1972
- Worked as businessperson and resistance fighter
