Date of birth:

August 27th, 1910 (Onstwedde, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

May 3rd, 1943 (Winschoten, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch War Grave Sellingerbeetse
Row: B. Grave: 13.

Nationality:

Dutch

Gerrit Buwalda had supposedly incited a strike. Everyone who had been in the service had to stand up for the Labour Deployment and there was national resistance to this, these were the May strikes of 1943. Gerrit had probably asked an NSB farmer he knew to cooperate in the strike. He was then arrested and taken into the backyard. The four-year-old son shouted 'Get daddy', but was called back by his mother. Immediately afterwards a soldier came to her and said: 'Was that your husband? Then you are now a young widow, because we shot your husband.' She was heavily pregnant.
He died in the hospital in Winschoten.

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