Memorial Johannes Franciscus Swint

Relief in white stone of Johannes Franciscus Swint, born in Groningen on 9-1-1895 and died on 1-1-1944 in Groningen.

Swint was involved in the attack on Anne Jannes Elsinga, chief of the special investigation department that helped the SD. A Silbertanne list was made within hours of the attack. This list also included Johannes Swint, insurance agent and active member of the communist resistance.
On January 1, 1944, around half past one in the morning, the new year had just begun, when the doorbell rang at Swint's house. Swint and his wife were already in bed. Three men stood at the door and forced Swint to follow them. At Linneausplein, Swint was shot dead with three bullets by B. van Wijnen. His body was stolen from the Academic Hospital by comrades and taken in silence to crematorium Westerveld, where the cremation ceremony took place on January 6, 1944.

The other victims were:
Leo Bohemen, a representative from Groningen,
Pieter van Dooren, director of the Groningen MTS,
Dirk Bos, station master at the Onnen shunting yard,
Bront Bossinga, director of the Groningse Nutsspaarbank,
Freerk Zigterman, tradesman and owner of a furniture store.

Of the more than 180,000 Dutch victims, 130,000 have no identifiable final resting place. So no grave could be set up for them. To prevent the names of these victims from being forgotten, the War Graves Foundation has recorded them in a series of memorial books, the name of Johannes Franciscus Swint is in Gedenkboek 43.

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Source

• Text: Bert Deelman
• Photos: Gerard Numan (1, 2, 3), Bert Deelman (4)
• Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei