Date of birth:

March 17th, 1907 (Velsen/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

March 8th, 1945 (Amsterdam/North Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal

Nationality:

Dutch

fought as a mobilised sailor in Rotterdam.
After the capitulation, he worked for a short time as part of the Reconstruction Service. This service was set up by the Germans to deploy unemployed Dutch soldiers, who had become unemployed after the capitulation, to repair war damage. From mid-October 1940, he was a telephone operator at the Municipal Air Raid Protection Service in Amsterdam.
In 1943, Gorter became a member of the National Organisation for Aid to People in Hiding (LO) and worked for these people.
In September 1944 he joined the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (Domestic Armed Forces) in Amsterdam-Oost. He formed groups, gathered intelligence about objects and locations and, as group commander, was responsible for an arms depot on the Ringdijk.
When this depot was no longer safe after a few arrests, the weapons were transferred to a storage place under a house on Balistraat.
However, this new address also proved unsafe. Two days after the depot had been set up, the Sicherheitspolizei raided it and arrested the resident. That same day, 16 February 1945, Gorter was arrested in his home and taken to the detention centre on Weteringschans. Here he was put on the Todeskandidaten list of people eligible for execution in reprisal.
On 8 March, Gorter was executed by firing squad along with 52 other men on the Amsteldijk in reprisal for the - unintentional - attack on the Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer in Nederland Rauter. On the orders of the Germans, their bodies were temporarily buried in mass graves in the dunes near Overveen.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Arjo Eijgelsheim
• - HEUVEL, C.C. VAN DEN e.a., Verzetsherdenkingskruis, Samsom Uitgeverij, 1985.
  - Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
  

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