Beatrice Boeke-Cadbury

Beatrice Boeke-Cadbury (also Betty Boeke, Beatrice Boeke, Beatrice Cadbury; 28 April 1884 – 13 February 1976) was an English-Dutch social activist, educator, and Quaker missionary. For her work educating and hiding Jewish children during the Holocaust, she was posthumously recognized as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.

Life Early life Born to Richard Cadbury and Emma Richard Cadbury (née Wilson), and an heiress to the Cadbury chocolate fortune, Cadbury was raised in an ascetic Quaker household. She was educated at Westfield College in London.

She was involved in the Friends' Foreign Mission Association (FFMA), which is how she met her future husband, Cornelius "Kees" Boeke. :3 Between 1912 and 1914 they served as Quaker missionaries in Syria. :39

The couple had eight children between 1912 and 1927. They resigned from the Religious Society of Friends during the 1920s, though Beatrice returned to the faith late in her life. Boeke-Cadbury also taught English at the school.

In the 1950s, the couple moved to Lebanon to set up an international organization for the education of Arab refugees, but they quickly returned to the Netherlands when Boeke-Cadbury fell ill.

On 4 July 1991, Yad Vashem recognized Boeke-Cadbury and her husband as Righteous Among the Nations. They are commemorated on the Wall of Honor.