Date of birth:

May 6th, 1908 (Marum, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

March 21st, 1945 (Rathenau, Germany)

Buried on:

Dutch War Graves Municipal Cemetery Loppersum
Plot: B. Grave: 573.

Nationality:

Dutch

Foppe Baron was the constable of Loppersum and lived there on the Wirdumerweg. He passed on sensitive information to the resistance, supplied blank identity cards to the resistance group Garrelsweer and transported ration cards for people in hiding in uniform. He thwarted an unplanned robbery of the distribution office in Loppersum and was promoted by the Germans for this. He was aware of a robbery of the distribution office in Slochteren and helped to distribute the loot.
On 28 July 1944 he was arrested after betrayal by the notorious Geesje Bleeker. In March 1945 he died in a German concentration camp. On 9 June 1946 he was reburied in Loppersum. He was posthumously awarded the Resistance Commemoration Cross.

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• Photo 1: J.Niemeijer "Hoe Groningen streed".
• - HEUVEL, C.C. VAN DEN e.a., Verzetsherdenkingskruis, Samsom Uitgeverij, 1985.
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  - Foppe Baron (Marum, 6 mei 1908 - Sachsenhausen (D, Brandenburg)/Rathenow, 21 maart 1945) - Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen
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