Date of birth:

March 27th, 1924 (Amsterdam/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

March 2nd, 1945 (Varsseveld/Gelderland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 39. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Amsterdam, Jan Evertsenstraat 55-II. Son of Jan Cornelis Hendrik Fleer (3 June 1897 in Amsterdam - 2 March 1945 in Varsseveld) and Afina Trijntje van der Wal. Unmarried. Student at the Reformed Teacher Training College in Amsterdam. No religion. Member of the resistance. Among other things, he was a contributor to and editor of the illegal newspapers De Waarheid, Ons Volk and Den Vaderland Ghetrouwe. He also provided shelter to people in hiding. Because his mother was known as a staunch communist, Jan was labelled as such as well. Due to the food shortages during the 1944/1945 ‘hunger winter’, he travelled with his parents to his mother's relatives at R 22 (now Coevorderweg 45) in Slagharen. He was arrested there on 24 January 1945 due to the betrayal of a rural policeman from Schuinesloor. Fleer was transferred via Villa Landzicht and Dedemsvaart to the detention centre in Almelo, where he was severely abused. On 20 February 1945, he was transferred to De Kruisberg in Doetinchem. He was executed, along with 45 others, including his father, as a reprisal for the killing of four German soldiers by the resistance.

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• - Overlijdensakte 98 d.d. 8 maart 1945 gemeente Wisch. - Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
  

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