Date of birth:

March 13th, 1895 (Amsterdam/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

December 15th, 1944 (Purmerend/North Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 5. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Jacob Pieter Schipper was born on 13 March 1895 in Amsterdam. He was married and worked as a non-commissioned officer in the army with the rank of sergeant-major. Jacob was arrested in 1942 for the first OD trial. This was a trial conducted by the SD against members of the Orde Dienst (Order Service) and also against professional soldiers who had participated in the resistance despite the ‘word of honour’ declaration. Jacob was released in 1943, but later rearrested for his extensive illegal activities. On 9 December 1944 – during the hunger winter – members of the Knokploeg Waterland (Waterland Assault Squad) raided Hollandia, a dairy and food products factory on Jaagweg in Purmerend. The occupying forces had stored 9900 kilos of sugar there for their own use. The resistance fighters used milk lorries to transport the sugar to a safe place, after which it was distributed to as many addresses as possible. The loot was given entirely to retirement homes, hospitals, school children and hungry citizens. The occupiers soon discovered the enormous loss from the milk factory. An extensive investigation was launched, but the case could not be solved. In retaliation, on 15 December 1944, three men were taken from prison at Weteringenschans in Amsterdam and shot on Jaagweg in Purmerend. In addition to Jacob Pieter Schipper, the resistance fighter Antonie Johannes Jacobus Breetveld from Tiel and Klaas de Graaf – a police officer from Amersfoort – were also executed. A monument was erected for them on Jaagweg in Purmerend.

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