Date of birth:

February 19th, 1920 (Zeist, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

September 26th, 1944 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Cemetery & Crematorium Westerveld
Grave: Verstrooid.

Nationality:

Dutch

John Otto, a member of the Evangelical Brotherhood, was a civil servant for the Distribution Cards and a member of the LO and LKP. The LO (National Organization for Assistance to People in Hiding) was a resistance organization that was committed to providing assistance to Jews and resistance fighters in hiding and people who evaded the Labor Deployment by going into hiding between 1942 and 1945. The LKP (abbreviation for National Resistance Groups) was a resistance organization that was founded in 1943 by the LO (National Organization for Assistance to People in Hiding). LO and LKP are often referred to together as LO-LKP. He was in hiding with his parents in De Bilt and was arrested by the Landwacht on August 23, 1944 during house searches for Jews. He was executed on September 29, 1944 at the Weteringeschans in Amsterdam.

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  - John Otto Arkes | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  - John Otto Arkes (Zeist, 19 februari 1920 - Amsterdam (nh), 26 september 1944) - Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen
  - John Otto Arkes | Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945
  - Zeist, monument aan de Zinzendorflaan | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  

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