Jan hook

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Jan Haken ( 1912 - 1956 ) was a Dutch communist , a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp and a member of the Second Chamber of the States General ( CPN ).

Life

Hook joined the Communist Partij van Nederland . When General Franco launched a coup against the Spanish Republic , he joined the International Brigades and fought in Spain to defend the Republic. From 1942 to 1945 he was a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp and was part of the prisoner kitchen work command. Hook became a member of the International Camp Committee and used his weapon to support the liberation of Buchenwald by the 3rd US Army on April 11, 1945.

When the rule of National Socialism was over, he said goodbye to his Dutch comrades from the concentration camp to return home. He also returned to the Netherlands and was a member of the CPN's mandate in the Second Chamber of the States General, the Dutch Parliament.

Literature and media

  • Emil Carlebach / Willy Schmidt / Ulrich Schneider (eds.): Buchenwald a concentration camp. Reports - Pictures - Documents , Bonn 2000, p. 119, ISBN 3-89144-271-8 .
  • Mention of Jan Haken in: Documentary FBW000956, DDR, 1974 'AND EVERYONE HAD A NAME or ETTERSBERG (BUCHENWALD) [AT] , director: Gerhard Jentsch , production DEFA-Studio for short films, Potsdam-Babelsberg; for the Buchenwald National Memorial, Weimar

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports, Berlin 1983, p. 606.
  2. ↑ Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports, Berlin 1983, p. 754.
  3. ↑ Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports, Berlin 1983, p. 657.
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 14, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cine-holocaust.de
personal data
SURNAME Hook, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch politician (CPN)
DATE OF BIRTH 1912
DATE OF DEATH 1956