Date of birth:

January 31st, 1900

Date of death:

December 16th, 1992

Nationality:

Dutch

A farmer's daughter born in the small village of Glimmen (Groningen province) in 1900, Henderika Vrieling married the three-year older Aart Baar from Spijk (Groningen province) in 1923. He was employed at the De Punt railway station in Glimmen, where she gave birth to a son named Hilbrand. Later, the family moved to Hulshorst, where son Hilbrand grew up and attended school in the nearby village of Nunspeet, where he also joined the boy scouts. When the Germans invaded the Netherlands, the Baar family offered shelter to Jewish refugees, and son Hilbrand became active in the resistance movement. In early 1945, the 20-year old Hilbrand was captured and brutally tortured. Together with 45 other prisoners, including comrades from his local resistance group, he was executed on 2 March 1945. His mother Henderika later returned to the northern Netherlands and died in Haren (a village near Glimmen), in 1992.

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