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Leonard Schrijver (Leo) was the second son of a family of diamond cutters, became a musician, had an affinity with communism and in 1940 wanted to fight the Nazis rather than flee. This was fatal for him.

Leo would have liked to have contributed more to the resistance, but long before the hostilities between the German Reich and the Soviet Union started at the end of June 1941, he was arrested and after a few weeks he was transported to the Detention Center to Schoorl around 1 July. However, as history has shown, the seeds of communist resistance had been sown partly through the efforts of people like Leo and could no longer be suppressed. This became apparent, for example, after the arrest of almost the entire party leadership, just after the resistance flared up. After Schoorl he is transferred to the infamous Kamp Amersfoort. From there, Leo is taken on 28 March 1942 with 90 other Dutchmen (of which 5 are Jews, it is explicitly stated) to camp Buchenwald, where he is murdered on 30 April 1942. Buchenwald was a concentration camp for all kinds of prisoners, including many political ones. Of the total of 250,000 prisoners who stayed here throughout the war, 56,000 died. No reason to expect that at age 49 Leo could not have survived. So the assumption of an unnatural death comes up quickly.

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