Date of birth:

June 6th, 1925 (Amsterdam/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

April 11th, 1945 (Zijpe/North Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 36. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Amsterdam, Turnerstraat 25-I. Son of Mattheus Hermanus Hoogstraten and Djoeke Ham. Unmarried. Office clerk/writer for the State Tax Administration. Dutch Reformed.
For a time he worked for the Nederlandse Arbeidsdienst (NAD, Dutch Labour Service). He had had enough of this paramilitary organisation of the occupying forces and went into hiding. He went into hiding partly to escape compulsory labour in Germany. Gerrit found a hiding place with fruit grower Jan Prins at Purmerenderweg 15 in Noord-Beemster. Gerrit was a member of the resistance belonging to the BS-Stoottroep Oosthuizen and distributed illegal literature.
During a raid by the Feldgendarmerie on Prins' farm on 27 March 1945, he was arrested along with several other people in hiding. Weapons, a hand grenade and a radio were also discovered. He was transported to the detention centre in Alkmaar via Oosthuizen.
On 11 April 1945, Hoogstraaten was executed by firing squad in Zijpe along with Arie Prins and Bernardus Hollander as reprisal for the sabotage of a bridge deck in Zijpe. Their bodies were temporarily buried in a mass grave in the dunes near Overveen.
A street in Midden-Beemster has been named after him.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Arjo Eijgelsheim
• - Overlijdensakte 074 d.d. 11 april 1945 gemeente Zijpe. - Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
  

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