Date of birth:

September 15th, 1917 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

January 22nd, 1945 (Dokkum, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch War Graves Northern Cemetery
Plot: 1. Row: 11. Grave: 41.

Nationality:

Dutch

Harm E. Blaauw was a member of the resistance group Packard during the war. The group was mainly concerned with hiding and caring for wounded allied soldiers. He also gave shelter to a paratrooper who had escaped from the Scholtenhuis. The group was betrayed and Blaauw was imprisoned.

On 19 January 1945, a German commander was shot dead by the resistance in De Valom, Friesland. As a retaliation measure, 20 prisoners from Friesland and Groningen were shot dead on the Woudweg in Dokkum on 22 January 1945.
Among the prisoners were the Groningen residents:
Harm E. Blaauw, Hendrik Lommert, Herman I. van Gelder and Heinrich F.W. Krohne.

Blaauw's grave monument represents a column with a sawn-off tree and was made by Willen Valk.
The column contains the following text: " Broken but not uprooted

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• Photo 1: J.Niemeijer "Hoe Groningen streed".
• Photo 2: Bert Deelman
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