Date of birth:

May 5th, 1923 (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 in Amsterdam, 1e Helmersstraat 295. Unmarried. Office clerk. Roman Catholic. From 1940 he worked at W. E. Goyarts Confectie Industrie in Amsterdam.
Through his employer's family, he was offered a job in the civilian clothing industry in Berlin in June 1943. This was part of the compulsory labour programme in Germany. To his own surprise, he was forced to act as an interpreter between Germans and Dutch-speaking forced labourers in October 1943, in addition to his job as an office clerk. Towards the end of 1943, Van Weerdenburg reported sick and was allowed to go home on sick leave in December of that year. His ‘illness’ lasted almost a year. When he was unable to make it last any longer, Van Weerdenburg went into hiding with the sexton of the Roman Catholic church in Wognum and then on the Wittenberg family farm on Zomerdijk A 31 in Spanbroek. There he joined the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (Domestic Armed Forces). He was arrested by a group of Landwachters on 26 February 1945 as a result of betrayal. He was transferred via Hoorn to the prison on the Weteringschans in Amsterdam and a few days later executed by firing squad at the Rozenoord on the Amsteldijk. This execution was in retaliation for the attack on SS-Befehlshaber Hanns Albin Johann Baptist Rauter on 6 March 1945 near Woeste Hoeve.

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