Monument Thies Jan Jansen

Thies Jan Jansen (Fokko ') lived and worked as an independent farmer at Weiwerd.
In late 1941 he became involved by Wim Speelman - the fiancée of a cousin - in the spread (and transport of Amsterdam and Utrecht to Groningen) of the illegal paper Fri Netherlands. As a member of the OD, he was involved in the establishment of departments and he organized a courier connection between Groningen and the General Headquarters of the OD in Amsterdam. He was also involved in the incorporation of hiding in the Groningen countryside.
As part of the espionage group Zwaantje he collected information on military objects and he worked among others with H.P. Hos from Haarlem and electrician L. Edens from Delfzijl. When his OD activities became known, Jansen plunged late May 1942 among themselves (while on his farm a manager was appointed). As a result of treason were Speelman and he stopped by the Security Police on December 9, 1942 at a UN meeting at the Parkhotel in Amsterdam. When frisking a revolver and fourteen patterns Jansen were found. After imprisonment in the Orange Hotel in Scheveningen (December 1942-September 1943) and Camp Vught (September to December 31, 1943), he was in mid-January 1944 in The Hague convicted in the Second Fri Netherlands Process to death and executed on May 11, 1944.

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