Vossegatsedijk 39

Pierre Coronel was born December 26, 1914 in Ouder Amstel, a small municipality near Amsterdam where the centuries old Jewish cemetery Beth Haim in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel is also located.
He followed a Marconist training in the early 1930s. After completing this training, he could not find a work with it and worked for some time as an assistant Portier at Dagblad De Telegraaf and then as a bicycle repairer.

In 1934 he became military service due to "weakness; flat feet forever unsuitable ”declared. He then weighed 53 kg and was 1m65 tall.
After a refresher course as a Marconist, he worked for Radio-Holland for some time. Until the beginning of the war, he sailed on different ships as a Marconist and stayed in Willemstad on Curacao for the first half of 1938.

In 1939 he married Milada Pokorny and went to live at Oudkerkhof 43 in Utrecht.
In 1941 they moved to De Bilt (then road to Rhijnauwen 4n now Vossegatsedijk 39 Utrecht) and the marriage was dissolved again. Then he lived alternately in Utrecht and Amsterdam.
In 1942 he was employed in Ostfriesland in Germany in the context of the labor deployment. On October 12, 1942, he tried to travel back home by train with a falsified person's certificate by train. During a check he was caught and transferred to a prison in Oldenburg. After being imprisoned for a few months, he was employed again. On March 15, 1943 he managed to flee again and successfully returning to the Netherlands.

Back in the Netherlands, Coronel provided help to Jewish people in hiding in his home on the road to Rhijnauwen in De Bilt. There, up to 18 people in hiding stayed at the same time in the house where his ex-wife continued to live permanently.
In the course of 1944 he came into contact with the Radio Service of the Council of Verzet (RVV): a national umbrella organization of resistance groups.
After having worked in the Veluwe for a short time, Coronel joined the Amsterdam radio ring of the radio service in September 1944. From various addresses in the capital, he sent and received more than 2,650 coded telegrams to and from Bureau Information in the Eindhoven already liberated.
At the end of December 1944, due to difficulties with the power supply, it became too complicated to keep the channel at a private address. That is why it was transferred to the laboratory of the pathologist anatoma Dr. J.C. Pompe from the Onze Lieve Vrouwen Gasthuis in Amsterdam.

On February 25, 1945, a raid took place in the laboratory by a large number of members of Sicherheitspolizei and the Ordnungspolizei. It is unclear how the Germans knew that the channel stood here. Coronel was fatally affected by the firefight that followed. A few days later his remains were buried in the dunes near Overveen.
After the war he was reburied at the Honor Cemetery Bloemendaal.

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