Hanna Tof-Woudstra

This person is commemorated on a memorial in Veendam and on a memorial in Noordwolde. More information on these memorials can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.

Hanna Woudstra was the daughter of David Woudstra and Judik Leefsma. She got married to Benjamin Tof in Wildervank in 1903. The couple had two cildren: Judik (a famous mezzo-soprano) and another child that took care of her parents, when they reached old age.
During the war the elderly couple got an offer to go into hiding, which they turned down. Based on their old age, they thought they had noth…