Date of birth:

November 5th, 1920 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date of death:

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

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 37. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived at Amstel 159 in Amsterdam. Son of engineer Vincent Willem van Gogh (31 January 1890 Paris, France) and Josina Wibaut (5 November 1890 Middelburg - 21 August 1933 Laren, North Holland). Unmarried, student of economics at the University of Amsterdam. No church. Member of the resistance with the alias Van Laar and a member of the Student Resistance and the L.O.-Laren (NH).
Van Gogh was a board member of the ASC-fraternity M.A.R.N.I.X. and as a student he refused to sign the declaration of loyalty for students in 1943. He was arrested in his room in Amsterdam on 25 May 1943. He spent his imprisonment in Amsterdam until 8 September 1943 and in Vught. His father, who lived at Rozenlaantje 12 in Laren (North Holland), bought his freedom for five hundred guilders. During a train inspection on 6 June 1944, he was arrested again. This was due to tampering with his identity card. He spent his imprisonment in Camp Amersfoort until 13 July 1944. This time, his father Vincent bought his freedom for eight hundred guilders. This did not mean the end of his resistance activities. Now Theo began forging identity cards, helping people in hiding and working with the illegal newspapers Het Parool, Ons Volk and Den Vaderlant Ghetrouwe. He was arrested for the third time during an SD raid on 1 March 1945 in connection with an illegal food transport. Together with a group of others, he was shot by firing squad at Rozenoord near the Amsteldijk as a reprisal for the attack on SS-Befehlshaber Hanns Albin Rauter on 6 March 1945 at Woeste Hoeve.
His name is on a memorial stone for the pupils and former pupils of the Nieuwe Lyceum at the old ‘Gedenkt te Sterven’ (Remember to Die) cemetery on Oude Torenstraat in Hilversum.

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