Date of birth:

December 21st, 1898 (Haarlem/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

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

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 41. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived at Burgwal 44 in Haarlem. Married with five children. Owner of the Haarlem commercial printing company Joh. Hoogendoorn and letterpress printer/publisher of the advertisement and association magazine De Poort. Dutch Reformed. Member of the banned Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN). Hoogendoorn's activities included stenciling and/or printing for the illegal magazines De Volk and Vrij Nederland, as well as illegal brochures and posters. He also produced forged pass papers and the like. On 29 April 1943, he was arrested in his print shop with his eighteen-year-old son Ad. Via the SD headquarters on Euterpestraat in Amsterdam, he was taken to the detention centre on Weteringschans and eventually ended up in the prison in Scheveningen (the Oranjehotel). By insisting during the interrogations that his son was not involved in the illegal activities, he escaped a possible death sentence. However, his son was sent to a concentration camp in Germany. He returned to his hometown after the war. On 10 May 1944, the death sentence was pronounced against the senior and ten days later it was carried out. A street in Haarlem has been named after him. The printing company has since been dismantled. One of the printing presses used at the time has been placed in Liberty Park in the Overloon resistance centre.

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