Date of birth:

March 17th, 1900 (Hoogkerk, the netherlands)

Date of death:

April 8th, 1945 (Anloo, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch War Grave General Cemetery Nieuwolda
Plot: 10. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Bosma is a religious man, reformed and patriotic. He wants nothing to do with the Germans. To him they are enemy rulers. When war breaks out he naturally joins the resistance. His task is to arrange hiding places for stranded English pilots and wanted resistance fighters. Bosma does not speak a word about this at home. Nobody knows about his activities. Neither his wife nor his children, although…
The eldest son Bindert once said that he had to deliver a package for his father to someone who lived in the middle of the field on a clay lane. You only have to hand over the package and say nothing. The contents have always remained a mystery. Berend Klaas is often away. Then he goes into hiding and sleeps elsewhere. Not for one night but sometimes for weeks on end. On the night of 24 March 1945 Berend Klaas sleeps at home for the first time in weeks on the farm on Kerkelaan. Early in the morning, the family suddenly hears that sickening cry that goes through marrow and bone: ‘Aufmachen!’. German and Dutch orders mixed together. Banging on the door. NSB members, German and Dutch police surround the farm and drive mother and four children in pyjamas to the kitchen. Bosma flees to the horse stable and hides under a pile of corn. The intruders beat mother and the children with their weapons. ‘Wo ist der Bosma?’. No one knows and so the NSB members, in blind rage, tear the wallpaper off the wall, rip open the leather chairs and break the floor. A photo of the Queen is shredded. They even threaten to set the farm on fire. They throw the tiles off the roof and then go into the barn with pitchforks. By poking the corn, they find Bosma. He emerges from his hiding place, bleeding. The children are allowed to say a brief goodbye to their father. A kiss, that’s all. ‘We weren’t allowed to say a word’, according to his son Bindert. Berend Klaas Bosma is executed on 8 April, less than a month before the liberation, with a group of nine other resistance fighters in the Evertsbos. Their bodies are thrown into a pit. Bosma is 45 years old, leaves behind a wife of 38 and four children aged 16, 14, 12 and 8. After the liberation he was reburied in the cemetery in Nieuwolda.

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• Photo 1: J.Niemeijer "Hoe Groningen streed".
• - Berend Klaas Bosma | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  - Berend Klaas Bosma | Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945
  - Berend Klaas Bosma (Hoogkerk, 17 maart 1900 - Anloo (dr)/in het Annerbos, 8 april 1945) - Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen
  - Berend Klaas Bosma – InGasteren
  - Overlijden Berend Klaas Bosma op 12 april 1945 te Anloo » Open Archieven
  - https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/thema/Executie bij Anloo
  

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