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My father's history

My father Theodorus Jacobus Carper born 23-11-1897 was arrested on January 3, 1945 at 6 o'clock in the morning by the SD in Hoogeveen. His eldest son Bertus was not at home. He had gone into hiding elsewhere.

My father was brought to the Crachstaate in Heerenveen. Initially, L.S. Having arrested Carper, police officer at Wolvega.
The informant knew Carper, who had lived in Zorgvlied until 1941. From prison, my father knew his cousin L.S. Carper to warn. He went into hiding on 9 January 1945.

My 16 year old sister visits my dad by bike in the winter of 45 and brings him clean underwear and food. In Noordwolde she heard that a brother of my father's nephew L.S. Carper would like to betray. My mother then went to Noordwolde by bicycle to change that brother's mind.
You always regret it after betraying someone. She herself was visited by the NSB commander plus an SD man with the proposal to betray my cousin so that her husband would be released. She refused. I am still proud of that.

At the end of January, the NSB mayor of Hoogeveen passed so-called offenses (such as warning people before they would be arrested, etc.) to the SD in Heerenveen.

On February 15, 1945, my father was transferred to Criminal Camp Amersfoort where he was registered under number 10990. On March 15, 1945, he left for Camp Neuengamme. March 18 arrival after which my father was undressed, shaved bald and treated with used motor oil (He had psoriasis).

He was given a cement bag as clothing (according to a testimony from two Hoogeveen fellow prisoners who have returned). My father was employed in the crematorium of the camp. There he fell seriously ill, as a result of which he was transported to the sick when the camp was evacuated, around 15 April 1945. About 100 people were squeezed into a freight car. The train has a distance of 60 kilometers
traveled more than 660 kilometers. Due to troop movements, the train had to shunt back and forth. As a result, the train arrived two days later at the station in Brillit.

There it appeared that 90 percent of the people had died (torture and cannibalism etc). Peasant women and young people from the area had to bury the corpses in a mass grave, close by in a forest.
I saw that location in 2006. In the middle of the forest you can see a pristine piece where the corpses have been excavated.

After consultation, the French forensic institute reburied the bodies one by one in the former prisoner of war camp in Sandbostel. My father was identified on August 15, 1960. transferred to the Netherlands and reburied in the Loenen field of honor in section E, grave number 6.

For information and circumstances about how people were treated and buried, I refer to the book Stalag XB Sandbostel written by Werner Borgsen and Klaus Volland. In 2006, the latter person, as chairman of the intelligence agency in Bremervörde, had me for two days
accompanied in my search for my father. Remarkable that he had a list of names, on which my father's, of the various
transports that had arrived in Brillit.

If you start on page 180 of the book, you will get a picture of how the prisoners were treated at the time. Hell on earth. I also spoke to the people who had to bury the corpses in the mass grave on page 187.

With regard to the reburial in 1960, I refer to the book 1940-1945 Hoogeveen which is published by the Historisch Kring Hoogeveen in 1999.

Source: Son Bert Carper

https://www.hoogeveenseherdenkingssteen.nl/theodorus-jacobus-carper

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