Willem Beukelsstraat 39 Amsterdam
Jan van Beers (9-11-1921) was the eldest boy from a family of 11 children. He lived in the Watergraafsmeer where he spent his childhood. He went to the Lidwinaschool on the Linnaeushof. As a big brother, he learned to cycle the youngest in the family and tied their skates under when there was ice. In 1944 he was in training for police inspector in The Hague, at the time under German supervision. He had to sign that he would cooperate with the Germans. Together with a number of others, the so -called Orange men, he refused and with that he signed his death sentence. In November 1944 he was arrested and taken to Camp Amersfoort. In a letter home he wrote that he had been given a 3 -hour reflection time to make a decision. And he asked nothing to say against Grandpa and Grandma of Deudekom, otherwise they would worry.
Připomínáme zde Johannes Wilhelmus Nicolaas van Beers 1921 – 1944 Je tady kámen poškozený, nebo chybí? Napište nám e-mail
