Willem Willing

Willem Willing had married in May 1940 for the second time. From his first marriage he had two daughters who both survived the war. By order of the occupying forces Willem Willing, his wife and father-in-law had to move to Amsterdam. A short time later Willem Willing decided to go into hiding in a guesthouse on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. His wife was forced to go into hiding on a different lo…

Willem Willing was married to Margot Schulman, who was his second wife. Willem Willing was a reporter at the Amersfoortsch Dagblad. The father of Margot Schulman was the painter Lion Schulman, who lived with them.
During the war the family had to move from Amersfoort to Amsterdam. Willem Willing and his wife Margot Schulman were given lodgings with a Jewish family in the Deurloostraat. Later on, t…

Een uitgebreid portret van Willem en Margot Willing-Schulman, inclusief foto’s van het echtpaar, is te vinden in het boek van Channa Kalmann, Hun namen niet vergeten: Herdenkingsstenen Amersfoort (Amersfoort 2019) 64-71.