Date of birth:

March 4th, 1903 (Antwerpen, Belgium)

Date of death:

January 22nd, 1945 (Dokkum, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch War Grave Stedum
Plot: A. Row: 1. Grave: 25.

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Stedum, Hoofdstraat A 19. Son of Jacob Boersema (nursery farmer) and Jacoba Smit (10 November 1878 Krewerd, municipality Bierum - 14 February 1941 Zandeweer, municipality Kantens). Married on 2 May 1928 in Bedum with Jantina Jacoba Woldring (20 October 1906 Stedum - 9 January 1983). Municipal secretary. Reformed. Member of the resistance. Belonged to LO-Stedum. He resigned as municipal secretary on 15 April 1943 and went into hiding in his own house in connection with the disappearance of the population register. According to Het Grote Gebod he was arrested on 15 January 1945 during a house search. His archive card states that he was arrested when NSB mayor Brontsema of Stedum and farmer Aikema came to his door on 15 January 1944 (meant to be 1945) to ask for space for evacuees. The reason given for his arrest was ‘principled refusal to work for the Germans’. He was executed with nineteen others on the Woudweg in Dokkum as a reprisal for the shooting of German SD officer Jakob Maus (31 August 1900 Büchel - 19 January 1945 De Valom) and the serious wounding of his Belgian driver Raoul de Keuckelaere (15 March 1907 Ghent), who died in Leeuwarden on 24 January 1945. His name is on a memorial at the execution site on the Woudweg and the war memorial on the Noorderdwinger in Dokkum. His name is also on the plaque on the outside wall of the auditorium at the entrance to the Cemetery in Stedum.

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• Photo 1: J.Niemeijer "Hoe Groningen streed".
• - OVCG; LO/LKP, Het Grote Gebod.
  - Hendrik Boersema | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  - Hendrik Boersema - Stedum › Groningen4045
  - Hendrik Boersema | Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945
  

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