Date of birth:

August 30th, 1912 (Amersfoort/Utrecht, Netherlands)

Date of death:

May 22nd, 1945 (Neustadt/Schleswick-Holstein, Germany)

Nationality:

Dutch

Arnoldus van Daal was born on 30 August 1912 in Amersfoort. He married Eppie Anna Antje Aaltje van Iddekinge and was a lawyer by profession. During the war he was commander of the Domestic Armed Forces (BS) department Boskoop, under the pseudonym ‘Landman’. Arnoldus was arrested and imprisoned from 19 December 1944 to 6 March 1945 in the Oranjehotel in Scheveningen and then until 15 March 1945 in Camp Amersfoort with camp number 15209. On that day he was deported to Germany and arrived in Neuengamme on 18 March 1945. His registration number there was 77319.

As the liberators approached, the prisoners were herded out of the camps and forced on the so-called ‘death marches’ to Neustadt – in the Lübecker Bocht in northern Germany. There they were put on board three ships, including the Cap Arcona, which were to take the prisoners – those who had survived the marches – to Sweden. But these ships were bombed on 3 May 1945 by the Royal Air Force, killing over 7000 people. Arnoldus was one of the survivors of the bombing, but after the liberation on 22 May 1945, he died in Neustadt from the effects of the hardships he had endured.

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• Photo 1: Herdenkingsstenen Amersfoort (Mark Boon)
• - HEUVEL, C.C. VAN DEN e.a., Verzetsherdenkingskruis, Samsom Uitgeverij, 1985.
  - Over Arnoldus van Daal - Scouting mr. Van Daalgroep
  

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