Celebesstraat 16
Hengelo
Only in Twente did the NVV collectively resist the measures taken by the occupying forces to draw the trade union movement into National Socialist waters. Gerrit Visser (1894-1942), from South Beijerland, worked as a farm worker and metal worker after primary school. In 1917 he joined the metal workers' union (ANMB) and became chairman of the Ridderkerk department. He left for Rotterdam because of propaganda. Here he joined the ANMB in 1922. As director he had the Wilton Feijenoord and Gusto shipyards in Schiedam as his working area. In 1937 he became a district administrator in Hengelo and chairman of the Hengelo administrators' union.
When the order came to fire Jewish members and officials, Visser refused to carry it out. In February 1941, Woudenberg came to Twente to reorganize the administrators' unions, which meant that they had to give up their independence, but the Twente administrators were not intimidated. On that occasion, Kees van Es, district manager of the Textile workers' union De Eendracht in Enschede, stated that 'there was no reason for us to cheer when Kupers and Simon de la Bella were dropped and we were given a Woudenberg'. Klaas Tabak (1892-1942), district administrator of De Eendracht in Almelo, was of the same opinion. Visser, van Es and Tabak were arrested in May 1941. They were successively imprisoned in Scheveningen, Kamp Schoorl and later Sachsenhausen. Van Es was released after a year, but Tabak was killed in April 1942 in Sachsenhausen and Visser in June 1942 in Camp Niederhagen in Wewelsburg.
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