Date of birth:

October 3rd, 1905 (Amsterdam/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

February 12th, 1945 (Haarlem/North Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 35. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Nieuwer-Amstel. Son of Frits Jan Nieuwenhuijsen (mechanic, 10 April 1877 Utrecht – 5 October 1956 Zeist) and Maria Wilhelmina Henrietta Westra (9 August 1874 Tholen). Married on 17 June 1931 in Hilversum to Antonia Catharina Johanna Maria Liesker (9 September 1906 Princenhage – 21 June 1989 Amsterdam). The couple had two children. General agent of insurance company De Hollandsche Sociëteit van 1808. Not a churchgoer. Member of the resistance.
During the occupation he quickly became involved in the Ordedienst (a Dutch pro-Nazi organisation) and espionage. He was arrested in March 1941. According to Viëtor, a policeman working for the Germans, a father and daughter had stated that Nieuwenhuijsen had exchanged illegal magazines with them. He was released after nine weeks because statements had shown that he had only collected illegal magazines out of a collecting mania. He went into hiding and continued his underground activities. Nieuwenhuijsen became an employee of Section V of the OD, a member of the National Committee of Resistance and secretary of the Contact Committee of the Large Advisory Committee on Illegality and the Amsterdam and National Work Committee. He also maintained contact with the Doctors' Resistance, attempted to centralise the illegal press and was active in the food supply to prisoners in the camps in Westerbork, Vught and the Polish Stanislau. Betrayal by the lawyer Johan van Lom led to the arrest of top resistance leaders, including Nieuwenhuijsen, at a meeting of the National Work Committee in Amsterdam on 27 January 1945. He was wounded in an escape attempt. He was executed, along with seven others, by firing squad at the Jan Gijzenbrug, where a shootout had taken place two days earlier that had cost a Feldgendarme his life. He was posthumously awarded the Resistance Cross on 7 May 1946. Streets in Gouda (Nieuwenhuisenpad), Amstelveen (Nieuwenhuijsenlaan) and Amsterdam (Nieuwenhuysenstraat) are named after him.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Jeroen Koppes
• - OGS Gedenkboek 35 - Dachau, Rossenbürg, Natzweiler, Oorlogsgravenstichting.
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