Word: geertruida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moorst sisters to transfer Anneke Beekman to a Jewish foster family so that she could be raised in the faith of her Orthodox Jewish parents. But the sisters objected-first that the Beekmans had not been really Orthodox, then that the proposed Jewish foster family was not religious enough. Geertruida Van Moorst pleaded that the Dutch courts were putting the theoretical importance of a Jewish family background above the importance of the loving care she had lavished on Anneke. Replied the Commission for War Orphans: "A Jewish child must be brought up in Jewish surroundings." Retorted Geertruida: "The child...
...March 1954 the police raided a Belgian convent school and found Betty, by now a highly "nervous" girl. They missed Anneke by minutes. But they had enough evidence to make arrests, and a new wave of bitterness swept The Netherlands. Last year Geertruida Van Moorst was sentenced to a year in jail (six months of it suspended) for helping hide the abducted Betty. Last month Geertruida and her sister Elizabeth (in absentia) and four others were brought to trial in Amsterdam for kidnaping...
Last week the sentences were passed. For the ex-priest, four months in prison; for the mother superior of a Dutch convent school where Anneke had once stayed, six months (the other mother superior was acquitted); for Elizabeth Van Moorst. a year; for her sister Geertruida, eight months. But Elizabeth and Geertruida were nowhere to be found. And Anneke Beekman is still missing...