Koninginnelaan 12

Hans Fles, born on July 24, 1920, was the eldest of six children. After his education at the Bonaventura College HBS, he was supposed to take over the business in his father's galleries. However, Hans dreamed of becoming a pilot at the Royal Airforce and wanted to go to England to complete his education.

He formed a group with friends and the Jewish tailor Mozes Brandon Bravo, who had connections in England. They performed sabotage acts against the Germans and made plans to flee to England. However, their plans were betrayed by V-Männer Piet Rothert and Jan de Jong, which made Hans and his friends arrested on 2 April 1941 and brought to the Oranjehotel in Scheveningen.

Hans' girlfriend Miep Hienkens was allowed to visit him and take his laundry with you. Hans communicated with Miep through notes that he hid in the borders of his shirts. They engaged in the Oranje Hotel, and Miep later received a handkerchief on which the interior of Hans' cell was embroidered, including her image and the text 'Toujours l'Amour'.

Hans was transferred to the Oranienburg concentration camp near Berlin. He wrote letters in German to Miep, who were checked by censorship. On November 27, 1942, Miep's nineteenth birthday, the news that Hans had died. He had found death by defending an older man who could no longer stand by exhaustion.

Miep Hienkens and the Bottle family mourned Hans' death. His brother Theo decided to work more actively in the resistance after Hans' Death, together with Co Leenhouts.

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