Jan Accelerate

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Johannes Adrianus Jozef "Jan" Vereleration (born August 13, 1919 in Amsterdam ; † January 7, 1944 on Waalsdorpervlakte , The Hague ) was a Dutch resistance fighter during the German occupation in World War II .

biography

Memorial stone for Jan Ver acceler and Gerard Steen, another resistance fighter, at the Amsterdam church De Boom . Both were members of this church
The Rembrandt Theater after the fire on January 26, 1943 - the German film Die goldene Stadt by Veit Harlan , with Kristina Söderbaum in the lead role

Jan Ver acceler was born the third of ten children to a devout Catholic family who lived across from the De Boom church on Admiraal de Ruijterweg in Amsterdam; he was small and petite. After seventh grade at a Jesuit parish school , he switched to the seminary in Sint-Oedenrode ; after three years the rector informed him that he was not suitable as a priest. He then reported for military service, which ended with the occupation of the Netherlands by the German Wehrmacht on May 10, 1940. On that day he was stationed with seven other soldiers in a casemate on the Westervoort bridge near Arnhem . When he first met German soldiers, he was wounded by a bullet in the arm and believed he was going to die. Thereupon he is said to have sworn to God that he would liberate his homeland from the Germans if he gets well again.

Back in Amsterdam, Pam Pooters made contact with the communist resistance group CS-6 , so named after their headquarters in Corellistraat 6. As a member of this group, he made bullets and wires with dynamite and time fuses, he forged stamps for ID cards, organized attacks on allocation points as well as railway lines and people hidden in hiding. He was involved in arson in the Rembrandt Theater on Rembrandtplein , where Nazi propaganda films were shot and German soldiers went in and out, in the Hollandsche Schouwburg and in the Arbeidsbeurs (employment office) on Passeerdersgracht. He acted under the false names George Devage and Max Brinkhorst . As George he worked in the edition of the Centrale Keukens van de Voedselvoorziening (central kitchens of the food supply), of which Pooters was the boss. Drivers and trucks from the central kitchens were used in acts of sabotage .

On February 5, 1943 Ver acceler and Gerrit Kastein carried out an assassination attempt on Lieutenant General Hendrik Alexander Seyffardt , commander of the voluntary legion of the Dutch SS and "war minister" in the shadow cabinet of NSB leader Anton Mussert . Seyffardt died a day later. Kastein was arrested shortly afterwards; During interrogation he committed suicide by throwing himself out of the window while tied to a chair. Kastein's successor as head of CS-6 was accelerated. On June 3, 1943, he shot Folkert Posthuma , another member of Mussert's shadow cabinet, in his house in Vorden . Velocity was tormented by conscience because of his deeds, especially the murders. Occasionally he went to his family to discuss it with his sister Do, who was two years his junior; she later wrote a book about it.

At the end of October 1943, together with nine other members of the CS-6 group, Ver Schnell carried out an attack on the police headquarters in Utrecht . A Dutch resistance fighter, Marius Esman, who had been imprisoned by the Germans, who, as an employee of the Utrecht Employment Office, had forged paper and also carried out an unsuccessful bomb attack, was freed. Velocity provided him with a camouflage uniform and took him by train to The Hague , where Esman went into hiding; he survived the end of the war and died in 2006 at the age of 86. It was the last joint action of the group, which was subsequently exposed and smashed by betrayal. 18 CS-6 members, including Pooters, were executed on October 1, 1943 in the Overveen dunes .

Velocity was also finally betrayed. The fiancée of co-conspirator Leo Frijda , a German Jew, had been arrested with him and betrayed Ver Speed ​​out of fear for her own life. On November 4, 1943, he was arrested by ten men and taken to the headquarters of the SD in the Euterpestraat (now Gerrit van der Veenstraat ). There he was interrogated and tortured. Although he was handcuffed to the bed, he managed to write a suicide note to his family on toilet paper that a guard smuggled out of prison. In the letter he wrote: “I was hoping to have a star or two on my collar after the war, but now I will have as many stars as I want. [...] I am going upstairs to be knighted by the Lord of all things and will have my own star in the sky. ”He spent the last night before his execution on January 7th in the Oranjehotel prison . The next day he was executed at the age of 24 and buried anonymously. In 1946 his remains were reburied in the family grave in the Sint Barbara cemetery in Amsterdam.

On November 24, 1945, a memorial plaque for Jan Ver acceler and Gerard Steen was unveiled at De Boom . Steen was also active in the resistance and a member of this community. The memorial plaque was created by the sculptor Willem IJzerdraat . In Amsterdam- Slotermeer the Johannes Adrianus Joseph Verleunstraat , in Best the Johannes Verleunstraat and in Zwijndrecht the Verleunstraat were named after him.

literature

  • Do du Preez acceleration / Pauline Wesselink: Soldier in verzet. De belofte the Jan Ver acceler het leven tasted . Conserve, 2004, ISBN 978-90-5429-181-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Pauline Wesselink: Amsterdam - Jan Ver acceler - Verzetsstrijder tot de dood. In: Dodenakkers. June 3, 2010, accessed November 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Gerrit Kastein, de verzetsman die uit een raam op het Binnenhof sprong. In: historiek.net. May 1, 2018, accessed November 18, 2018 (Dutch).
  3. ^ Ton van den Berg: "Ik bid nog iedere dag voor mijn redder". In: Midden Zeeland. October 16, 2004, accessed November 19, 2018 . (pdf)
  4. ^ Loe de Jong : Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog . tape 7.2 , p. 961 .
  5. ^ Amsterdam, monument aan de Admiraal de Ruijterweg. In: 4en5mei.nl. September 4, 2017, Retrieved November 18, 2018 (Dutch).
  6. ↑ Johannes Adrianus Jozef Accelerator. In: Erepeloton Waalsdorp. Retrieved November 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Accelerate, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Accelerate, Johannes Adrianus Jozef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1944
Place of death on Waalsdorpervlakte , The Hague