Date of birth:

March 27th, 1921 (Makassar, Dutch Indies)

Date of death:

July 29th, 1944 (Vught/North Brabant, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Ash Pits Wells Camp Vught

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Wassenaar, Prinsenweg 14 (Sterbebuch Camp Vught). Son of Hendrik Roelink (December 10, 1891 Meppel) and Geertruida Johanna Aletta Waleson (October 6, 1895 Mr.Cornelis, N.I.). Unmarried. In 1942, Hans, as his nickname was, passed his final exams at the Maritime Training School in Amsterdam and started sailing on the Calypso of the Java-China-Japan line. When he had to work for the Germans, he went into hiding with the Van Etten family in Dussen. He joined the resistance organization LO/KP Land van Heusden en Altena. On June 15, 1944, fellow villager and fellow resistance fighter Marius Nederveen asked Roelink and Jan Hak, who was also in hiding in Dussen, to assist the KP-Peter from Schiedam, which was led by Peter van der Smit (December 18, 1913, Rotterdam), with a weapons drop in the area of ​​Helvoirt. The dropping turned out to have been faked. The group was arrested. On July 29, 1944, Roelink, Hak, Nederveen and ten others were shot at the shooting range at Camp Vught. Their names are listed on a memorial at the execution site and the memorial wall in the reflection room of Camp Vught. See further Smit, Petrus van der.

Roelink was cremated in Vught concentration camp.

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• Photo 1: IN MEMORIAM, De Oud-Kwekelingen van de Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart te Amsterdam 1939-1945, Derde herziene uitgave 2020
• - OGS Gedenkboek 36 - Amersfoort, Vught, Westerbork, Oorlogsgravenstichting.
  - POLDERMAN, K. & RUITER, H. DE, IN MEMORIAM, VOK, Amsterdam, 2020.
  - Nationaal Monument Kamp Vught; NIOD, Collectie Gevangenissen en Kampen - deelcollectie Vught 250g, inv. no. 950 Processen-verbaal over gefusilleerde personen die bij de wapendropping bij Helvoirt op 15 juni 1944 waren betrokken, site kamparchieven.n;l Oorlogsgravenstichting; voormalige site Genlias/site wiewaswie.nl (waaronder overlijdensakte 246/1948 gemeente Wassenaar)
  - Digitale Stamboom/Haags Gemeentearchief
  - Sterbebuch Kamp Vught
  - Nico Hans Roelink | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  

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