Date of birth:

September 1st, 1921 (Groningen, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

October 11th, 1944 (Wormerveer, the Netherlands)

Nationality:

Dutch

Cornelis Yno George Dijksterhuis used the alias Leo during the war. He was Reformed. His father, Pieter Heertje Dijkterhuis died in Camp Westerbork on October 26, 1944.
Cornelis was a member of the resistance group IP Trouw. His location was Groningen but he was arrested in Amsterdam where he lived at Breestraat 68.
During the war, Zaan resistance fighters killed more than 20 collaborators, black-marketeers and other persons considered dangerous. One of them was deputy police inspector Jan Willem Bouwens. In 1944 he was deputy inspectoer with the police in Wormerveer. On October 7 he was executed, as the underground called it, on the Zaanweg. On October 11, Dirk Hofland was executed on the Zaanweg by the Germans in reprisal, along with four other non- Zaan inhabitants, Trouw associates Jan Goldschmeding (Amsterdam, February 2, 1921) and Cornelis Yno George Dijksterhuis (Groningen, September 1, 1921), Beene Dijkstra (Amsterdam, July 29, 1915) and Jan van der Weerd Kampen, (May 22, 1891).

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