Date of birth:

April 2nd, 1914 (Lippenhuizen, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

September 25th, 1944 (Westerbork, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch War Graves Cemetery Esserveld
Plot: S. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Groningen, Waldeck Pyrmontstraat 12. Son of laundry agent Pier Bouma (1 January 1881 Minnertsga - 28 November 1955 Groningen) and Jitske Klazema (3 April 1880 Beetsterzwaag). Married on 15 October 1942 in Groningen to Siemtje - nickname Sien - Wubbena (10 August 1917 Groningen - 27 February 1999 Winsum, Groningen). Art dealer/Draughtsman/Teacher MO-drawing. No church. Member of the resistance under the pseudonym (Crazy) Gerrit. On his card in the Groningen resistance archive he is called an 'artist in falsifications of identity cards and stamps'. He was arrested due to the betrayal of the Groningen butcher and V-Mann Pieter Wichers (29 March 1903 Groningen - executed 2 June 1947 Groningen). According to his resistance card, Wichers had promised to supply meat for people in hiding on cracked coupons. Instead of keeping his promise, he informed the SD that Wubbena was housing a resistance fighter. That was his son-in-law Bouma, who carried out forgery assignments for the OD. Henk Werk, who devotes a lot of attention to Wichers on his site, writes: 'Klaas Bouma often visited Pieter Wichers' shop and had many meat coupons. One day Wichers received a coupon of 50 rations from him. That was in September 1944. Kindel was with Wichers at the time and the latter told him how he had obtained those coupons. The next day Wichers told Bouma: ''Get out of here, because the SD has its eye on you.'' When Bouma arrived at his father-in-law's house on 15 September 1944, Lehnhoff, Knorr, Drost and (Pieter Johan) Faber were waiting for him. While he was being taken to the Scholtenhuis together with the also arrested courier Jantje Woldendorp, Faber shot Wubbena dead. Ten days later Bouma was executed with eleven fellow prisoners in Camp Westerbork. He was posthumously awarded the Resistance Commemoration Cross. See also Bruggema, Jan. Cremated in Camp Westerbork. On 2 November 1945 a symbolic burial took place in field S at the Esserveld Cemetery in Groningen.

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• Photo 1: J.Niemeijer "Hoe Groningen streed".
• - Brinks, Het Scholtenhuis, deel 1
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  - overlijdensakten 84/1945 gemeente Westerbork en 2755/1945 gemeente Groningen
  - Klaas Bouma - Westerbork Portretten
  - Klaas Bouma | Oorlogsgravenstichting
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