Date of birth:

May 7th, 1918 (Haarlem/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

September 8th, 1944 (Abbenes/North Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Haarlem. Son of Bernardus Alexis Antonius Lenderink and Engelina de Vries (12 October 1886 Haarlem). Unmarried. Shop assistant/merchant in Gouda earthenware. He worked in the business of his Jewish mother. No church. Member of the resistance under the pseudonym Flip. Ben Lenderink belonged to the KP-Haarlemmermeer. Lenderink was involved in the publication and distribution of the illegal newspaper De Patriot and several robberies. On 8 September 1944, he and two others were to go to a farm in Abbenes with weapons and ammunition to guard the ring dike at the De Leeghwater pumping station. Johan van der Hulst (14 March 1925 Hilversum) was captured when two Dutch Army soldiers who happened to be passing by discovered some of the weapons he had brought with him. Van der Hulst was supposed to pick up two other KP colleagues by car to do the guard duty. Lenderink and Albertus Antonius Maria Hoekstra (10 August 1923 Amersfoort) managed to hide for a while, but were discovered nonetheless. After being interrogated, the German SD members Wehner, Schmitz and Fischer each shot one of the resistance fighters behind the farm. A monument bearing their names was erected on the site of the former farm in honour of the three KP members. Lenderink's mother was killed in Auschwitz on 18 November 1943. Lenderink was posthumously awarded the Resistance Memorial Cross.

Lenderink was cremated in Driehuis-Velsen under number 16198. The urn containing his ashes was placed in a general niche at Westerveld crematorium and buried in plot 40 at the cemetery of honour in Bloemendaal on 10 December 1947.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Arjo Eijgelsheim
• Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Bureau/Sectie Gravendienst van de Afdeling Sociale Zaken van het Ministerie van Oorlog/Defensie, Dienst Identificatie en Berging (DIB) van de Koninklijke Landmacht, nummer toegang 2.13.5220, inventarisnummer 262, Overlijdensakte 107 d.d. 13 maart 1945 gemeente Haarlemmermeer,. - Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
  

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