Diepenveenseweg 18

Derk Willem (Wim) was born on February 4, 1927 in Almelo. He was the eldest son of Hendrikje and Fokke van Nijen and had four younger brothers, Anne Egbert, Henk, Laurens and Fokke. In 1937 the van Worp family moved to the Goldenbeltstraatje in Deventer and then in 1939 the family moved to 259 Diepenveenseweg (now 18). This was the wish of Mr N.J. Gerritsma, the owner of the property, who after the death of his wife did not want to live alone in the large house.

Wim, his father, an uncle (Henk Weltevreden) and Mr. Gerritsma were involved in the resistance, but the young Anne Egbert (Han), who was a teenager, also had to travel regularly to deliver packages, including to a bakery in Schalkhaar with a bag of rye flour during the curfew. He was then given a rye bread back. Years later he learned that these packages were for the resistance.

Wim, himself a teenager and a very quiet boy, was very smart and technical. After craft school, when he was 15 years old, he went to work at an electrical company and was often hired by nearby companies when machines were not working. In the photo Wim, who was injured, is in the hospital.

In 2020, Renate van Nijen, the daughter of Han van Nijen (90 years old at the time), has bundled his memories of Wim and of the war years in the resistance in the book "De Jongens van de Diepenveenseweg" dedicated to Wim.

One of Han's vivid memories was the regular visit of the Tensen brothers, resistance fighters from Haerst, who were executed by the Germans on 13 October 1944. Han was not allowed to attend these talks, he was too young, but he was very impressed by the brothers and all the secrecy. After the war, the puzzle pieces fell into place. Among other things, an attic full of beautiful furniture, kept there for Jewish people, the broadcasts of radio Oranje (which he was allowed to attend once), the person in hiding who lived with them for a few months and his bike rides in the pitch dark to deliver packages. . Han remembers well how his parents, after another curious question, took him aside and said: “You should never talk about this, really with nobody, not with your best friend, not with the teacher or miss, not with your brothers, really with no one".

Wim was 17 or 18 when, presumably (it was not talked about), he was shot in the back during an action for the resistance. This was in 1944. He could no longer walk and lay in bed for the rest of the war. During an air raid siren, which happened quite often towards the end of the war, Han and his father carried him to the basement of the house. Wim lived a few more years after his shooting and died on July 25, 1947 at the age of 20. He was buried in Deventer in the General Cemetery, on the Raalterweg in a family grave.

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