Date of birth:

June 27th, 1923 (Alkmaar, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

September 6th, 1944 (Vught, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Ash Pits Wells Camp Vught

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Alkmaar, Nassaulaan 19. Son of timber merchant Gerhardus Adrianus Conijn (20 August 1880 Alkmaar - 17 March 1947 Alkmaar) and Martha Maria Ignatia Schröder (16 April 1884 The Hague - 6 August 1969 Alkmaar). Unmarried. Economics student. Roman Catholic. Member of the resistance under the pseudonym Röell, Rikus, Vermeulen and De Haas. He was leader of the KP-Alkmaar and involved in the National Support Fund (NSF). As a result of betrayal, he was arrested on August 19, 1944 in a restaurant near the Berlage Bridge in Amsterdam. He was posthumously awarded the Resistance Cross by Royal Decree on July 25, 1952. Despite his young age, Fritz Conijn is seen as one of the greats of the Dutch resistance against the Germans during the years 1940-1945. His name is on a memorial in the former concentration camp Vught. Streets are named after him in Alkmaar, Amsterdam and Heemstede. In Purmerend a street is named after the Conijn brothers, who were all active in the resistance.

Conijn was cremated in the Vught concentration camp.

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• Photo 1: drs. Lucas F.M. van der Hoeven
• - OGS Gedenkboek 36 - Amersfoort, Vught, Westerbork, Oorlogsgravenstichting.
  - Schulten dr. C.M., "Zeg mij aan wie ik toebehoor", Het verzetskruis 1940-1945, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie, Amsterdam, 1993

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