• Den Haag in de Tweede Wereldoorlog

Date of birth:

March 10th, 1925 (The Hague/South Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

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

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 38. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in The Hague, Laakkade 373. Son of Theodorus Nicolaas Marie Eijffinger (8 December 1885 The Hague) and Catharina Maria Windhorst (3 August 1889 The Hague). Unmarried (engaged to Annie Vierhout). Hotel waiter/tax office clerk. Roman Catholic. Member of the resistance.
At the end of 1944, he went into hiding with military police sergeant Johannes Lodder (27 March 1918 Ridderkerk) in Wervershoof. Lodder was also the local commander of the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten, Strijdend Gedeelte (Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten, Strijdend Gedeelte was a Dutch resistance organisation). Eijffinger helped his host with his illegal work. On 25 January 1945, the Grüne Polizei raided Lodder's home after receiving a treacherous tip-off. Eijffinger initially tried to escape arrest by jumping into a ditch. A few warning shots were enough to stop him. He was then transferred to the Amsterdam detention centre, soaking wet. He was executed by firing squad along with Lodder and 51 others on the Amsteldijk near Rozenoord in reprisal for the attack on SS-Befehlshaber Hanns Albin Rauter on 6 March 1945.

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