Date of birth:

December 24th, 1912 (Onstwedde/Groningen, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

February 15th, 1945 (KZ-Aussenlager Rathenow/Brandenburg, Germany)

Buried on:

Dutch War Cemetery Osnabrück
Plot: K27. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Evert was an engineer for the Provincial Water Board and bought the house at Troelstralaan 27a in Groningen and lived there with his wife and children in 1938. Drenth was a member of the Reformed Church and the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) and national socialism was an abomination to him.
From the beginning of the war he gave speeches to Reformed youth and youth organizations, warning of the danger of the Nazis. This brought the wrath of the Germans upon him and he had to go into hiding. In the spring of 1944 he was arrested, not in his own house but at a hiding place on the Rabenhauptstraat in Groningen. The Germans reportedly shouted enthusiastically: 'Ah, da haben wir den Drenth!'
Via the House of Detention and concentration camp Vught he disappeared to Germany, where he died on February 13, 1945 as a result of his hardships in concentration camp Rathenow. His wife was also arrested later in the war and seriously abused at the Scholtenhuis in the city of Groningen.

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• Photo 1: J.Niemeijer "Hoe Groningen streed".
• - Evert Edsko Drenth | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  - Evert Edsko Drenth | Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945
  - Wie heeft er nog een onderduikplek uit de oorlog in zijn woning? - RTV Noord
  - Geboorte Evert Edsko Drenth op 24 december 1912 te Stadskanaal gem. Onstwedde » Open Archieven
  - https://wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/101875406
  - KZ-Außenlager Rathenow - Lager | RouteYou
  

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