Barend Velleman and his family went into hiding in Nijmegen, using the name De Bruin.
They most likely had contacts there through the brother of Isabella Gotlieb, Herman, who lived in Nijmegen but was killed in Auschwitz in September 1942. The couple Velleman-Gotlieb was in Nijmegen around March 1943. Their son Arno, who had adopted the name Wim de Bruin, joined them a bit later. Because their ho…