Date of birth:

December 28th, 1909 (Rotterdam/South Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

March 8th, 1945 (Amsterdam/North Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 37. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Groningen, on board the cargo ship Dewati. Son of Carolus Ludovicus Huijbrecht (8 October 1886 Clinge - 31 January 1950 Zwolle) and Wilhelmina Johanna Wöhler (16 January 1887 Winschoten). After his parents divorced, his mother remarried to the skipper Siebrand Hoven (3 January 1897 Martenshoek). He was unmarried. He sailed in the northern provinces as the skipper of his mother and stepfather's ship Dewiati. Roman Catholic.
Johnnie Huijbrecht fought against the Germans as a soldier in the May days of 1940. In 1943 he refused to return to German captivity. He went into hiding with his sister in Leiden, where he worked as a courier for the resistance. He later went into hiding in Hoorn and Wervershoof. In September 1944, Huijbrecht, who used the pseudonym J. van Laar, joined the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (Domestic Armed Forces). He was betrayed and arrested on 25 January 1945 in Wervershoof after putting up fierce resistance. He was taken via Medemblik and Alkmaar to the prison on the Weteringschans in Amsterdam. Huijbrecht was severely mistreated there. He was executed by firing squad at Rozenoord on the Amsteldijk along with 52 other Todeskandidaten (death candidates) as reprisal for the attack on SS-Befehlshaber Hanns Albin Rauter at Woeste Hoeve. His name is listed on the war memorial on Raadhuisplein in Wervershoof.

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