Bus, Hendrik Date

Date of birth:: February 5th, 1906 (Groningen, the Netherlands)
Date of death:: September 25th, 1944 (Westerbork, the Netherlands)
Buried on:: Dutch War Graves Cemetery Esserveld
Nationality:: Dutch

Biography

Hendrik Date lived in Haren, Oosterweg 96. Son of baker Johannes Bus and Foekje Meinema. He married Jantine Pol on 5 September 1932 in Groningen. The couple had two children, the first of whom only lived for six days. Traveling salesman/car technician/car dealer. Reformed. Resistance member belonging to the Order Service, National Support Fund and Internal Armed Forces. During the May days of 1940 he was in military service. He housed and cared for people in hiding. His resistance card also states that he became an officer at the OD-BS. An anonymous traitor's letter, which later turned out to be written by the Groningen lawyer Simon Redeker, was the beginning of a large number of arrests in OD circles. He was one of the victims and was arrested on 23 September 1944 and taken to the SD headquarters Scholtenhuis in Groningen. He was shot dead two days later in Camp Westerbork, along with eleven others.
After the execution, Bus was cremated in Camp Westerbork. On November 2, 1945, he was symbolically buried at the Esserveld Cemetery in Groningen.

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