Date of birth:

May 1st, 1922 (Winsum, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

May 3rd, 1943 (Trimunt, Marum, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch War Graves Municipal Cemetery Marum

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Marum, A 447. Son of laborer/farmer Bouke Doornbosch 31 December 1895 Zevenhuizen, municipality Leek) and Janette Werdekker (10 February 1894 Kantens). Unmarried. Farmer. Reformed. On 3 May 1943, he was with his brother Karst and their person in hiding Friedrich Ludwig van der Riet on the yard of Andries Hartholt, when a German patrol arrested everyone they met on the Haarsterweg. Together with neighbors, people in hiding and the fiancée of Luikina Hartholt, both brothers were shot later that day at the radar station in Trimunt near Marum. The sixteen victims were completely wrongly accused of having put up roadblocks as communist elements during the April-May strike. The names of Jan and Karst Doornbosch are mentioned on the Monument Victims of the May Strike 1943 at Glimmen, the war memorial in Trimunt and the grave monument at the Dutch Reformed Cemetery in Marum-West. (Sources: Truus de Witte, That it had to last so long...).

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• Photo 1: J.Niemeijer "Hoe Groningen streed".
• - Archief Jack Kooistra. Gemeentearchief Marum. Overlijdensakte 46/1943 gemeente Marum
  - Jan Doornbosch | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  - Jan Doornbosch | Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945
  - https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/tijdlijn/Jan Doornbosch/86/2486
  - Geboorte Jan Doornbosch op 1 mei 1922 te Obergum gem. Winsum » Open Archieven
  

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