Date of birth:

April 18th, 1921 (Paramaribo, Suriname)

Date of death:

February 16th, 1944 (Varsseveld/Gelderland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Field of Honour Loenen
Plot: E. Grave: 1036.

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Varsseveld, C 247. Unmarried. Mate's apprentice. No Church. Member resistance. Nico went into hiding with the unmarried and very religious sisters Gertruida Gerritdina Jolink (20 January 1888 Wisch - 2 February 1945 Ravensbrück) and Hermina Jolink (9 May 1891 Wisch - 30 November 1944 Ravensbrück). Six Jews were also housed in their home. Gitz acted for a resistance group as a radio operator and operated a radio transmitter installed in the attic. Both sisters, in their naive and sometimes somewhat guileless world, did not handle safety well. This is probably partly why the SD came on the trail of the ladies. In the early morning of February 16, 1944, a robbery followed in the Jolink house. When the house was searched, nothing objectionable was initially found. When a member of the raiding squad knocked on a cupboard wall, he heard a hollow sound. Behind it was the transmitter. When a German harshly questioned one of the Jolink sisters about this, Gitz got into a fight with the Germans. Land ranger Hendrik Kerkdijk shot Gitz in the face, who was fatally injured and recovered seriously mutilated. Two Jews were also hit. One of them suffered a lung injury, the other a shattered jaw. Gitz was buried in Varsseveld amid massive interest. Almost every villager was present and, as it were, silently demonstrated against injustice. His name is mentioned on a war memorial in Paramaribo.

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• Photo 1: Oorlogsgravenstichting
• - POLDERMAN, K. & RUITER, H. DE, IN MEMORIAM, VOK, Amsterdam, 2020.
  - Archief Jack Kooistra
  - Nicolaas Walter Gitz | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  

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