Jan Ysbrands Galama
Jan Ysbrands Galama (born February 24, 1885 in Tjerkwerd (Tsjerkwert), Southwest Fryslân ; † June 20, 1942 in Dachau ) was a Dutch Roman Catholic pastor who was murdered in the Dachau concentration camp .
Life
He was the seventh and youngest child of Ysbrand Gaeles Galama and Aaltje Taekes nee. van der Wey . Both parents died when he was a toddler. In 1910 he was ordained a priest . The first Mass he celebrated in the Catholic Church in Blauwhuis (Blauhûs). After pastoral work in Zevenaar , Soest and Dalfsen , he became pastor at the St. Pankratius Church in 's-Heerenberg in 1931 .
After the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940, on August 3, 1941, during Holy Mass, he read the pastoral letter of the Dutch bishops, in which they rejected the National Socialist worldview and the Nazi church policy and pronounced excommunication against members of fascist organizations , and he affirmed for his Person that he would refuse communion to members of the NSB . Thereupon he and his chaplains Marinus Adrianus van Rooijen and Regnerus Hendericus Franciscus Hegge were arrested and deported to the Dachau concentration camp on the grounds that they had "distributed an anti-German letter and influenced the people in an anti-German manner" . Van Rooijen died there on June 16, 1942 and Galama four days later as a result of malnutrition and severe abuse. Hegge was liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in mid-April 1945 .
Web links
- Galama, Johannes IJsbrands (wo2slachtoffers.nl, Dutch)
- Jan Ysbrands Galama (ysa.nl, Frisian)
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| SURNAME | Galama, Jan Ysbrands |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Galama, Johannes IJsbrands |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch Roman Catholic pastor, murdered in Dachau concentration camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tjerkwerd (Tsjerkwert), Southwest Fryslân |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1942 |
| Place of death | Dachau |