Date of birth:

January 14th, 1923 (Victoria, Hongkong)

Date of death:

January 7th, 1945 (Limmen/North Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 34. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived at Prinsengracht 1015 in Amsterdam. Unmarried. Studied at the Technical University in Delft. Dutch Reformed. Member of the resistance.
In May 1943 he refused to sign the declaration of loyalty for students. An attempt to flee to England via France and Spain was unsuccessful. In 1944 he became a member of the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (Domestic Armed Forces).
On 16 December 1944, two resistance fighters with connections to Pallas were arrested during a spy mission near Barneveld. Pallas was a student fraternity house in Amsterdam where many resistance fighters had gathered since September 1944 and had also spent the night there. Weapons were also stored there.
During harsh interrogations involving torture, one of the resistance fighters broke down and gave up information about Pallas and the key to the house. As a result, all those present at Pallas (address: Zwanenburgwal 42), including the Woutman brothers, were arrested by the Sicherheitspolizei in the early morning of 19 December. They were transferred to the detention centre on Weteringschans.
Ernst was put on the Todeskandidaten list of people eligible for execution by firing squad in reprisal. On 7 January 1945, he was shot in Limmen along with nine other resistance fighters, including fellow prisoners, in reprisal for the resistance's killing of a German conscript. The occupying forces ordered the ten bodies to be buried in a mass grave in the dunes near Overveen.
His brother Jacob (Job) Ruurd Woutman, who lived in Laren in the province of North Holland, died on 28 February 1945 in the Arbeitserziehungslager in Lahde, Germany, and his brother Maarten Hendrik (Hein) Woutman from Usquert died on 1 April 1945 in the German concentration camp Wöbbelin.
He was posthumously awarded the Cross of Merit by Royal Decree no. 17 d.df. 20 January 1953.

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