Date of birth:

December 2nd, 1911 (Velsen/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

May 20th, 1944 (Wassenaar (Waalsdorpervlakte), Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 41. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Driehuis (municipality of) Velsen), Driehuizerkerkweg 106. Son of Willem Zeeuw and Reindertje Oldenburg. Married to Emma Otte (one child). Assistant ignition coil fitter at the Van Gelder & Zonen NV paper mill. No church. Member of the resistance. From 1942, Zeeuw was involved in the distribution of the illegal magazines De Vonk and De Waarheid and in sabotage activities, such as the arson of straw bales and Spanish cavalrymen of the Wehrmacht and the disabling of railway wagons. He was arrested in his own home on 3 June 1943 as a result of the betrayal of Pieter (P.O.C.) Vosveld, the courier for the national Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) leadership Paul de Groot, Jan Dieters and Lou Jansen, who succumbed under the great pressure of the SD. He was successively imprisoned in the Amsterdam detention centre, Vught concentration camp block 13, prisoner number 739, Utrecht prison in cell 86 and for the last three months of his imprisonment in Scheveningen prison (the ‘Oranjehotel’) in cell 606 with registration number 9198. For sabotage, the Obergericht in The Hague sentenced Zeeuw to death as a Sondergericht and he was executed along with twelve others. The Zeeuwstraat in Velsen is named after him.

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