Date of birth:

December 25th, 1915 (Amersfoort/Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Date of death:

August 19th, 1944 (Mühlberg a/d Elbe, Landkreis Liebenwerda, Germany)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 40. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Gerrit Riezebos was a professional sergeant in the army's sapper troops. He fought at the Afsluitdijk during the German invasion in May 1940. After the capitulation, he worked as a clerk at the firm De Vries van Buuren & Co. in Amsterdam. In the spring of 1943 he refused to report for repatriation to a prisoner of war camp, which the occupying forces demanded of all former soldiers, and went into hiding.
Not long after, Riezebos came into contact with a resistance group of the Raad van Verzet (Resistance Council), a national umbrella organisation of resistance groups. He was involved in various robberies in Amsterdam, including one on a carbide factory, two distribution offices and on the House of Detention on the Weteringschans, where many resistance fighters were imprisoned. He also provided a hiding place for a number of Jewish compatriots and supplied them with ration cards.
On 7 June 1944, Riezebos was arrested during an ID check in Amsterdam. He tried in vain to escape and was imprisoned in the Waterloo military camp in Leusden, where he attempted to escape once again. A short time later, he was transferred to a prisoner of war camp in Mühlberg an der Elbe in Germany. He died here on 19 August 1944 from the effects of diphtheria and was buried in Neu-Burxdorf.
In July 1949, his remains were transferred from Germany to the Netherlands by the Identification and Recovery Service. At his mother's request, Riezebos was reburied at the Cemetery of Honour on 27 July 1949.

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