Hetty Voûte, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hetty Voûte

Dutch resistance fighter (1918-1999)

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1918

Place of Birth: Utrecht, Netherlands

Date of Death: 16-Jan-1999

Profession: resistance fighter

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Henriëtte ("Hetty") Voûte (1918–1999) was a Dutch Resistance fighter who was declared Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem on March 24, 1988 for her work rescuing Dutch Jewish children whose parents had been deported to Nazi concentration camps during World War II.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, had children, and became active in animal rescue.