Among the names Yad Vashem honours as Righteous Among the Nations is Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot.
The record lists Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot as Dutch journalist and economist (1897-1989).
Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot was born at Pretoria in 1897. Her recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands. She was educated at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
By occupation Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot was writer, women's rights activist 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 (2008) and Order of Orange-Nassau.
Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot died in 1989, aged 92. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 2008
- Order of Orange-Nassau
- Worked as writer, women's rights activist and resistance fighter
- Educated at Erasmus University Rotterdam
