Date of birth:

December 1st, 1906 (Haarlem/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

May 11th, 1944 (Wassenaar (Waalsdorpervlakte), Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 40. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Henk Hos was a chemical analyst for various doctors, the Sint Johannes de Deo hospital in Haarlem and the GG & GD in Amsterdam.
Soon after the capitulation in May 1940, Hos joined a military intelligence group. He later came into contact with the Ordedienst (Order Service) – a national illegal organisation that had partly originated in military circles – the Zwaantje espionage group in Delfzijl and the radio operator Thijssen.
Hos's main goal was to establish a connection with London and to pass on (military) information via transmitters to be built or routes through Sweden or Switzerland. Thanks in part to his contacts, Hebe Kohlbrugge was able to travel to Switzerland in mid-1942 and establish the connection.
Hos went into hiding in July 1941. From October 1941 he was part of the new leadership of the illegal magazine Vrij Nederland (VN). The aged had been arrested almost in their entirety a few months earlier. Together with the new leader of VN, Speelman, he took care of the production and national distribution of the magazine. A conflict between Speelman and Hos and the VN editors over internal security, organisation and ideological direction ultimately led to a split and the founding of the illegal daily newspaper Trouw.
As a result of betrayal by a V-man (a Vertrauensmann or Frau who infiltrated resistance groups in order to betray them), Hos was arrested in Haarlem on 1 December 1942. He had just been planning to flee to England. After having been imprisoned in Scheveningen and Vught, he was sentenced to death in January 1944.
On 11 May 1944 he was executed by firing squad along with another member of the VN editorial staff on the Waalsdorpervlakte. The V-man had been killed by the resistance. In July 1946 they were reburied in the War Cemetery.
After the war, Hos was posthumously awarded the Resistance Cross 1940-1945, the highest honour for bravery in the Netherlands after the Military Order of William.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Jeroen Koppes
• - Schulten dr. C.M., "Zeg mij aan wie ik toebehoor", Het verzetskruis 1940-1945, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie, Amsterdam, 1993 - Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
  

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