Date of birth:

May 30th, 1891 (Groningen, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

October 28th, 1944 (Westerbork, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch War Graves Cemetery Esserveld

Nationality:

Dutch

He was the founder of the resistance group Tromp in 1940 and the associated Tromp Fund, which, among other things, collected money for the families of sailors who served in the Allied forces. Van den Bosch was a leader (with Walraven van Hall) in the establishment of the National Support Fund (NSF), of which he later became the head. In 1942 he had to move from Eindhoven to Groningen, because his espionage activities, passing on company data about the Philips complex in Eindhoven and technical data from Philips about new inventions to England, had attracted the attention of the occupying forces. In the city of Groningen he became the central leader of the NSF for the Northern Netherlands. He worked there under his resistance name Pa van den Berg.
On 18 October 1944, Van den Bosch was awaited by the SD at a meeting place in a house on the Parklaan in Groningen. As he walked towards the house, he was warned by his courier from the building. He fled, but was shot through a window by an SD man and hit in the shoulder. He stumbled into a bicycle shop, got rid of the incriminating papers he had on him and was then arrested and locked up in the Scholtenhuis, the SD headquarters. An attempt by the resistance to buy his freedom for 100,000 guilders came to nothing. The SD, who had no evidence against him, designated Van den Bosch as Todeskandidat. On 28 October he was transferred to Camp Westerbork and executed there together with five other resistance fighters. During his execution he managed to avoid the usual shot in the neck by turning around and shouted "Long live the Queen!". The Dutch brothers and war criminals Pieter and Klaas-Carel Faber were among those involved in the execution. Van den Bosch's remains were cremated in the crematorium of Camp Westerbork.

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• Photo 1: J.Niemeijer "Hoe Groningen streed".
• Photo 2: Bert Deelman
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