Date of birth:

February 19th, 1912 (Watergraafsmeer/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

September 23rd, 1943 (Wassenaar (Waalsdorpervlakte), Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 41. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Haarlem. Married. Sales representative. No church. Member of the resistance. Boekman served as a soldier during the May days of 1940. In October 1940 he became a member and in March 1941 the leader of a group of five people from the banned Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN). He was also a contributor to the illegal magazines De Waarheid, De Vonk and De Koevoet. After going into hiding in Amsterdam and Hilversum, he joined the CPN in The Hague in September 1942 (address in The Hague: Blankenburgstraat 61). Boekman also distributed De Vonk there. He also plotted attacks and made plans for acts of sabotage. He increasingly called for armed resistance against the occupying forces. As a result of betrayal, Boekman was arrested on 21 December 1942. The Haarlemmer was tortured during his interrogations. His grave monument bears the remarkable text: ‘He who lived for the oppressed shall not die’.

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