Date of birth:

October 20th, 1911 (Heeg/Friesland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

February 12th, 1945 (Haarlem/North Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 35. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Venlo, Mgr. Nolensplein 22. Son of primary school headmaster/secondary school headmaster Geert Hendriks de Jong (9 September 1879 Suameer - 1 January 1963 Hoofddorp) and Zwaantina Anna Buffinga (26 August 1880 Doezum - 1936). Married Johanna Hieke Wiersma in 1940 (19 May 1916 Watergraafsmeer - 11 December 2012 Haren).
After graduating from the VU University in 1936, De Jong served as an assistant pastor for several years. In 1940, he was appointed pastor of the Reformed Church in Venlo. He was a member of the resistance belonging to the LO-Venlo, the group of publishers of the illegal magazine Trouw and the Nationaal Steun Fonds. Henk de Jong was also a hiding place for Protestants in North Limburg.
He was a passionate person who could not say no in the fight against Hitler's Germany. In 1944 he was forced to go into hiding with an aunt in Amsterdam. On 27 January 1945, he was arrested at the address Leidschegracht 13-15 in Amsterdam by notary Rijkens when he was to substitute for someone at a meeting of the underground National Working Committee for Illegality. The SD was waiting at that address for anyone who entered. He was transferred to the detention centre on Weteringschans in Amsterdam. On death row in this building, he sang hymn 390: 1 and 3, despite the German order to ‘Maul halten’, the lyrics of which read: ‘One day, on the evening of my life, I will offer you a hymn of praise more pure and high, weary of strife and care, for each day given here’. On the afternoon of Monday 12 February 1945, De Jong was executed in Haarlem along with seven others by firing squad near the Jan Gijzen bridge, where a shoot-out had taken place two days earlier that had cost a Feldgendarme his life. Bystanders were forced to watch. He managed to slip a note to his wife in the hand of a boy without being seen: ‘Thank you for all your love. God be with you. Goodbye until we meet again with Jesus. Your Henk’. His gravestone reads: ‘Goodbye until we meet again with Jesus’. A memorial service was held in the St. Bavo Church in Haarlem on the day of his reburial.
In Venlo, the Dominee de Jonglaan has been named after him.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Jeroen Koppes
• Heere en Vernooij; Dodenboek Venlo op site historie.venlo.nl; site genealogieonline.nl (stamboom Helmantel). - Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
  

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