Date of birth:

December 12th, 1918 (The Hague/South Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

April 9th, 1945 (Remscheid/North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Buried on:

Dutch Field of Honour Loenen
Plot: C. Grave: 369.

Nationality:

Dutch

Sergeant-aspirant reserve officer-pilot

In November 1939, Winterdijk was called up for military service and assigned to the Bomber Aircraft Department at Schiphol Air Park.
As a crew member of a Fokker T-V, he took part in combat actions.
An attempt to escape to England after the capitulation failed and he was taken prisoner of war. After his release, he was appointed department head at the Philips factories. Took part in the Resistance and made a second attempt to escape to England. In 1943, through betrayal by the notorious Van der Waals, he fell into the hands of the Gestapo and was sentenced to death. Transferred to a prison near Remscheid, he died two days before this prison was reached by the Allies, as a result of mistreatment and deprivation on 9 April 1945.
He is now buried in the field of honour in Loenen.

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• Photo 1: IN MEMORIAM, De Oud-Kwekelingen van de Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart te Amsterdam 1939-1945, Derde herziene uitgave 2020
• - POLDERMAN, K. & RUITER, H. DE, IN MEMORIAM, VOK, Amsterdam, 2020.
  - Jacob Simon Winterdijk | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  

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