Jakob de Jonge, his wife Jeanette, and their children Ruth, Heinrich and Joachim-Max, lived in Weener, Germany close to the border with Holland. Early during the Nazi regime, Jakob was imprisoned on false charges pressed against him by a Nazi sympathizer with whom he had previously had a business dispute. When he was released, but not allowed to remain in the vicinity, he and his family relocated and after Kristallnacht, they crossed the border into Leeuwarden in northern Holland.
![A bookend decorated with the colors of the Dutch flag and orange lions – symbols of the Dutch monarchy](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/9150_1.jpg?itok=hRwDvQMu)
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Gift of Rosina de Jonge-Nathans, den Haag, the Netherlands & Jakob de Jonge, Solihull, UK
![A bookend decorated with the colors of the Dutch flag and orange lions – symbols of the Dutch monarchy](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/9150_1.jpg?itok=gCBxQ61F)
![Joachim-Max de Jonge, ca. 1944](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/9185_7.jpg?itok=otgBL6yX)
![Joachim-Max de Jonge, ca. 1944](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/9185_7.jpg?itok=_OmKdrsd)
![Joachim-Max de Jonge with his class during the war. Note the yellow stars on the Jewish students’ shirts. Max is in the fourth row from the front, third from the left.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/9186_13.jpg?itok=re6UKBk4)
![Joachim-Max de Jonge with his class during the war. Note the yellow stars on the Jewish students’ shirts. Max is in the fourth row from the front, third from the left.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/9186_13.jpg?itok=ht4lgvbC)
![The de Jonge family in hiding in the attic of the Nooitgedagt home](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/9186_9.jpg?itok=QK21qtHz)
![The de Jonge family in hiding in the attic of the Nooitgedagt home](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/9186_9.jpg?itok=dFlD2n0m)
![The workshop in the attic. From the left: Jakob. Behind his left shoulder is the edge of the table now in the collection at Yad Vashem. Joachim-Max is holding the model plane.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/9186_14.jpg?itok=bJJIR5Pj)
![The workshop in the attic. From the left: Jakob. Behind his left shoulder is the edge of the table now in the collection at Yad Vashem. Joachim-Max is holding the model plane.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/9186_14.jpg?itok=M8YvcDZA)
![After liberation in 1945. The Nooitgedagt and de Jonge families with three additional Jewish hidden children.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/9186_4.jpg?itok=ewYmN4WQ)
![After liberation in 1945. The Nooitgedagt and de Jonge families with three additional Jewish hidden children.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/9186_4.jpg?itok=qSksm9O2)
![The carpenter’s table that served the de Jonge family in the attic](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/9087.jpg?itok=q8evvTM_)
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Gift of Rosina de Jonge-Nathans, den Haag, the Netherlands & Jakob de Jonge, Solihull, UK
![The carpenter’s table that served the de Jonge family in the attic](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/9087.jpg?itok=HoToXL76)
![Lamp with a wooden back decorated with the lion – symbol of the Dutch monarchy](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/9149b.jpg?itok=laHoT_H-)
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Gift of Rosina de Jonge-Nathans, den Haag, the Netherlands & Jakob de Jonge, Solihull, UK
![Lamp with a wooden back decorated with the lion – symbol of the Dutch monarchy](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/9149b.jpg?itok=vWSXER47)
![Wooden truck and trailer](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/9148_1-2b_0.jpg?itok=OfBN3wUs)
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Gift of Rosina de Jonge-Nathans, den Haag, the Netherlands & Jakob de Jonge, Solihull, UK
![Wooden truck and trailer](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/9148_1-2b_0.jpg?itok=9xu8HTAl)
![Ladder with mouse toy/game](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/9151_1-2.jpg?itok=ew35YFbe)
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Gift of Rosina de Jonge-Nathans, den Haag, the Netherlands & Jakob de Jonge, Solihull, UK
![Ladder with mouse toy/game](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/9151_1-2.jpg?itok=SKrUDHRS)
![Wooden Box with the orange lion](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/9183_1b.jpg?itok=ByH6tf91)
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Gift of Rosina de Jonge-Nathans, den Haag, the Netherlands & Jakob de Jonge, Solihull, UK
![Wooden Box with the orange lion](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/9183_1b.jpg?itok=bi2qIOby)
![Cigarette and matches holder](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/8956.jpg?itok=WQ-KTjCa)
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Gift of Rosina de Jonge-Nathans, den Haag, the Netherlands & Jakob de Jonge, Solihull, UK
![Cigarette and matches holder](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/8956.jpg?itok=PXeq0Mda)