Date of birth:

July 14th, 1923 (Baarn, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

October 2020 (unknown)

Nationality:

Dutch

As a student, Ernst had stolen ammunition from a German storage facility and painted anti-German slogans on the walls of his school. He was a student at the Koloniale Landbouwschool in Deventer when he attempted to sail by canoe to England with his friend Jaap van Mesdag to join the Dutch armed forces.
He was arrested at sea on August 31, 1942.

Prisons and camps:
- Headquarters Sicherheitsdienst Rotterdam (31 August 1942)
- Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort (September 1942)
- Concentration Camp Vught (January 17, 1943)
- Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort (June 26, 1943)
- Concentration Camp Natzweiler-Struthof (11 July 1943)
- Concentration Camp Dachau (September 6, 1944)
- Allach, outer camp of Dachau (September 8, 1944)
- Dachau Concentration Camp (January 22, 1945)

Dachau number: 100911

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