Date of birth:

November 9th, 1886 (Akkerwoude/Friesland, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

August 18th, 1944 (Vught/Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Ash Pits Wells Camp Vught

Nationality:

Dutch

Hendrik van der Galiën lived in Leeuwarden and was the son of Sybe (Meinderts) van der Galiën (May 24, 1842 Akkerwoude - † ?) and Jantje (Jouws) Kooistra (December 29, 1852 Akkerwoude - † ?) He was married to Carolina Catharina Jerphanion (November 20, 1886 Zwolle - † June 14, 1967 Drachten) The couple had nine children. His rank was chief guard master. Since 1920, he was an officer in the Leeuwarden police force. He was of the Reformed faith.
He was a member of the resistance and was part of the LO in Leeuwarden. Among other things, he helped people go into hiding. He also alerted Jews and resistance fighters to round ups and he cooperated with Jan Evenhuis, the leader of the National Steunfonds in Friesland. The discovery of the NSF archives in the cheese storehouse of the Tamminga firm on the Schrans in Leeuwarden was fatal for him. The Frisian SD agent Fransoos Exaverius Lammers (December 26, 1899 Bolsward - † July 24,1971 Breda) found a written note among the documents of the Leeuwarden police. NSB agent Taco Mansems didn't recognize the handwriting but an officer of adminstration was summoned, the former clerc 1st class and later lieutenant of the Koninklijke Marechaussee in Apeldoorn, Hendrik Josephus Snoeke and he immediately said; 'That is Van der Galiën's handwriting'.
In addition he proved, using a file, that the handwriting on the letter matched Van der Galiën's. The next day (July 18 or 19, 1944) the watchmaster was arrested when he came to work, After the Germans had left, he sent two of his daughters to other resistance fighters to alert them to imminent danger. Consequently, the SD arrived too late to arrest those they were looking for. After his arrest, Van der Galiën, was transferred to the Scholtenhuis in Groningen and subsequently to concentration camp Vught. He was executed on August 18, 1944 along with Evenhuis and 12 other prisoners from the north, mostly Frisians. Remarkable detail: shortly before his arrest he saved a German soldier from drowning. His reasoning: 'Even being an enemy, he is and will always be a human being'.
After the war, Snoeke was sentenced to five years imprisonment by a special court but owing to a procedural error, the sentence was overturned. There is a plaguette in the police office on Holstmeerweg in Leeuwarden in memory of Van der Galiën. His name also appears on the memorial on the execution site and on the Roll of Honor on the memorial wall in National Monument Camp Vught. See also Berghuijs, Adriaan.
Van der Galiën was cremated in concentration camp Vught.

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• Photo 1: Oorlogsgravenstichting
• - OGS Gedenkboek 36 - Amersfoort, Vught, Westerbork, Oorlogsgravenstichting.
  - The Righteous Among the Nations Database
  - Galiën, Hendrik Sijbe van der | Nationaal Monument Kamp Vught
  - Hendrik Sijbe van der Galiën | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  - Further: Pieter Wijbenga, Bezettingstijd in Friesland; Archief Vereniging Friesland 1940-1945, archiefnummer 635: 131 (Otto Kuipers, voor Vrijheid en Recht); J. Kooistra, Strijders, Onderdrukkers en Bevrijders, pag. 274-275 (Lammers); voormalige site Genlias/site wiewaswie.nl; zoekakten.nl (familysearch.org).
  

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