Date of birth:

June 21st, 1910 (Amsterdam/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

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

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 38. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived at Minervalaan 24 in Amsterdam. Married to non-Jewish Jeannette Henriëtte Gouda (10 January 1924 in Amsterdam - 2 December 2011 in Laren (North Holland). Director of the Amsterdam branch of the Amsterdamsche Bank NV at Van Baerlestraat 60 in Amsterdam. No church (of Jewish descent). Member of the resistance under the pseudonym Van Nispen.
In May 1940, during the German invasion of the Netherlands, he was a first lieutenant in the Mounted Artillery. In September 1941 he was dismissed because of his Jewish origins. In 1943 he joined the Amsterdam resistance organisation. He helped people go into hiding, distributed the illegal newspaper The London News, forged identity cards and arranged for extra ration cards for people in hiding. In May 1943, Van Nierop refused to return to captivity. He was arrested near his home on 28 February 1945 and transferred to the detention centre on Weteringschans in Amsterdam. He was executed by firing squad on 6 March 1945 as reprisal for the attack on SS-Befehlshaber Hanns Albin Johann Baptist Rauter near Woeste Hoeve.
His tombstone bears the inscription: ‘Courage and Loyalty’.

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