Date of birth:

December 2nd, 1923 (Rotterdam)

Date of death:

February 12th, 1945 (Haarlem)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 35. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Nieuw-en Sint Joosland. Unmarried. Office clerk at the tax office in Middelburg. Reformed.
In 1943 he refused to do compulsory service in the Dutch Labour Service (Nederlandsche Arbeisdienst) or to do compulsory labour in Germany. Van Beveren went into hiding in Rilland and later with his sister Lena in Amsterdam. He became a member of the resistance in Amsterdam. Among other things, he provided shelter for people in hiding and helped distribute the illegal newspaper Trouw. By coincidence, he was arrested in Amsterdam on 16 January 1945 while delivering a batch of copies of Trouw to an address where the Sicherheitspolizei had just carried out a raid. After his arrest, Van Beveren was transferred to the detention centre on Weteringschans in Amsterdam to await his execution.
On 12 February 1945, he was executed in Haarlem along with seven others in reprisal for the shooting of a German non-commissioned officer and a soldier.
They were buried in a makeshift mass grave in the dunes on the orders of the occupying forces.

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