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Date of birth:

November 4th, 1918 (Paramaribo, Suriname)

Date of death:

November 6th, 1944 (Wassenaar (Waalsdorpervlakte), Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 40. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Frank van Ommeren worked at the Rotterdamsche Bank from 1939 and studied for the MO bookkeeping and SPD exams. From November 1943 he worked in The Hague as an assistant accountant.
Van Ommeren was a member of the National Organisation for Aid to People in Hiding, together with his older brothers Humphrey and Lodewijk. From November 1943, they helped Jewish compatriots find hiding places and distribution documents.
Van Ommeren was also an investigator and paymaster in the The Hague district of the National Support Fund (NSF), an illegal organisation that financed a lot of resistance work, including aid to the families of seafarers and (Jewish) people in hiding. From February 1944, he also took care of a group of Jewish people in hiding in various places in South Holland.
On 28 February 1944 he was arrested on suspicion of illegal activities, but was released a month later due to lack of evidence. From September 1944 he was a courier for his brother Humphrey, who was in charge of the intelligence service and the contact office of the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (Domestic Armed Forces). He brought messages to contact addresses of various resistance organisations in The Hague.
On 12 October 1944, the Sicherheitspolizei raided the ‘resistance address’ at Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië 240 in The Hague after a betrayal. More than 50 people were arrested there, partly because the Sicherheitspolizei continued to post officers at the address and arrested anyone who entered the building. Van Ommeren was also arrested in this way when he came to deliver sabotage assignments for a Hague hit squad to this address.
He was transferred to the Oranjehotel prison in Scheveningen. On 6 November 1944 - two days after his 26th birthday and seven months after his marriage - he was executed by firing squad on the Waalsdorpervlakte along with four other resistance fighters.
On 19 April 1947, his remains were reburied at the Eerebegraafplaats (cemetery for those who have given their lives in honour).

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