Bergsteijn, Nicolaas Hendrikus

Date of birth:: October 4th, 1919 (Naarden, Netherlands)
Date of death:: March 8th, 1945 (Woeste Hoeve, gemeente Apeldoorn, Netherlands)
Buried on:: Dutch War Graves Rusthof
Plot: 4. Grave: 26.
Nationality:: Dutch

Biography

Nicolaas Hermanus Bergsteijn was born on 4 October 1919 in Naarden. He worked as a municipal official at the town hall in Woudenberg. Nico came into contact with resistance fighter Theo Dobbe and was accepted into his group. Nico went into hiding with 200 blank identity cards and worked for the resistance group making false identity cards. The longer the war lasted, the greater the need for these identity cards. In mid-1944, Nico went into hiding in Daarle and then in Vroomshoop. Here he was arrested by the SD on 10 February 1945 for, among other things, raids on distribution offices. He was shot in the leg during an escape attempt. He was imprisoned by the SD in Almelo. On 8 March 1945, he was executed by firing squad near the Woeste Hoeve, in the municipality of Apeldoorn, as retaliation for the attack on Rauter, the head of the SS in the Netherlands.

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