Date of birth:

September 22nd, 1920 (Dordrecht/South Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

January 7th, 1945 (Limmen/North Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 34. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Dordrecht, Dubbeldamseweg 222. Son of Eugène Charles Prins and Johanna Jacoba Werker. Unmarried. Studied geology in Amsterdam. No church. Member of the resistance. He was chairman of the Pallas fraternity of the Amsterdam Student Corps (ASC).
In 1942, he was arrested by the Sipo on suspicion of complicity in the assassination of the traitor Hugo de Man on 15 August 1941 in Delft, together with Charles James Courtney Hugenholtz and Jan van Blerkom. Prins was severely beaten during his interrogation. No evidence was found that he had been involved in the attack. For that reason he was released, but he had to report to the Sipo twice a day. In April 1943 Prins refused to sign the declaration of loyalty and urged fellow students to follow his example. In September 1944 he joined the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (Domestic Armed Forces). Among other things, he provided weapons. That September, he was arrested at an address occupied by the Sipo. Prins managed to escape from a moving lorry on his way to the Amersfoort concentration camp. He was caught again on 16 December 1944 with a friend near Barneveld. Both were severely beaten. Prins, however, did not reveal anything about his illegal past. His friend succumbed to the physical and mental pressure. He handed his interrogators the key to a house in Amsterdam where the resistance group regularly met. All those present at the time were arrested.
On 7 January 1945, he and his brother Herbert, who was also active in the resistance, were shot in Limmen along with eight others as reprisal for the resistance killing a German conscript. The occupying forces ordered the ten bodies to be buried in a mass grave in the dunes near Overveen.

Buried in the dunes near Overveen (grave R0). Reburied at the Bloemendaal War Cemetery, plot 35.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Arjo Eijgelsheim
• - Overlijdensakte 15 d.d. 1 februari 1945 gemeente Limmen. - Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
  

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