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Farewell, Tiky." On 1 July 1943, the twelve convicted resistance fighters are taken from their cells at six o'clock in the morning and handcuffed two by two. At the execution site in the Overveen dunes, they are shot dead with machine pistols, still handcuffed to each other and without a blindfold
May 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Farewell, Tiky." On 1 July 1943, the twelve convicted resistance fighters are taken from their cells at six o'clock in the morning and handcuffed two by two. At the execution site in the Overveen dunes, they are shot dead with machine pistols, still handcuffed to each other and without a blindfold
The love and admiration that flowed to us from all sides, from guards, soldiers and prisoners, have made us all light. Life was good in everything it has given me. I leave with a grateful heart, greet all my friends, I think of everyone with friendship and love.
May 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The love and admiration that flowed to us from all sides, from guards, soldiers and prisoners, have made us all light. Life was good in everything it has given me. I leave with a grateful heart, greet all my friends, I think of everyone with friendship and love.
"He asked me to tell people that homosexuals are not weaklings." In his farewell letter to Jeanette van der Masch Spakler he writes: "My comrades and I have lived through a great time. A time of joy and happiness such as I have never known in my life. Death has no terror for any of us.
May 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"He asked me to tell people that homosexuals are not weaklings." In his farewell letter to Jeanette van der Masch Spakler he writes: "My comrades and I have lived through a great time. A time of joy and happiness such as I have never known in my life. Death has no terror for any of us.
Willem/Tiky wants an old-fashioned Dutch foam cake, which is delivered by the Roland Holst family. A prisoner in the cell opposite later says: "The convicts sang, debated and laughed until the very end. Everyone was impressed. Even the Germans."
May 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Willem/Tiky wants an old-fashioned Dutch foam cake, which is delivered by the Roland Holst family. A prisoner in the cell opposite later says: "The convicts sang, debated and laughed until the very end. Everyone was impressed. Even the Germans."
Farewell
Everyone is calm when the sentences are announced. Willem Arondéus and eleven others are sentenced to death and are locked up together in a sick bay in the prison on the Weteringschans. They are allowed to make a last wish.
Everyone is calm when the sentences are announced. Willem Arondéus and eleven others are sentenced to death and are locked up together in a sick bay in the prison on the Weteringschans. They are allowed to make a last wish.
May 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Farewell
Everyone is calm when the sentences are announced. Willem Arondéus and eleven others are sentenced to death and are locked up together in a sick bay in the prison on the Weteringschans. They are allowed to make a last wish.
Everyone is calm when the sentences are announced. Willem Arondéus and eleven others are sentenced to death and are locked up together in a sick bay in the prison on the Weteringschans. They are allowed to make a last wish.
In the courtroom, the once so self-doubting, dreamy Nieuwendijker naturally takes charge. In an attempt to save the others, he takes all the blame. He had been the instigator, he had persuaded the others.
May 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
In the courtroom, the once so self-doubting, dreamy Nieuwendijker naturally takes charge. In an attempt to save the others, he takes all the blame. He had been the instigator, he had persuaded the others.
They lie on bunks with iron chains tied to their ankles and wrists, flat on their backs, the light on day and night. Willem Arondéus is kicked and beaten during the interrogations.
May 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
They lie on bunks with iron chains tied to their ankles and wrists, flat on their backs, the light on day and night. Willem Arondéus is kicked and beaten during the interrogations.
The young courier who was working for Arondéus and knows almost all the addresses of the resistance group, is betrayed and cannot withstand the torture. Except for Willem Sandberg, Gerrit van der Veen and Frieda Belinfante, the entire group is arrested two weeks later, Arondèus being the first.
May 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The young courier who was working for Arondéus and knows almost all the addresses of the resistance group, is betrayed and cannot withstand the torture. Except for Willem Sandberg, Gerrit van der Veen and Frieda Belinfante, the entire group is arrested two weeks later, Arondèus being the first.
"After lying outside for about 5 minutes, I heard an explosion, followed by several more explosions at short intervals." The sky above the Population Register turns red: the attack has succeeded. The Germans are furious and offer a reward.
May 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
"After lying outside for about 5 minutes, I heard an explosion, followed by several more explosions at short intervals." The sky above the Population Register turns red: the attack has succeeded. The Germans are furious and offer a reward.
Van Doorn was told that he would be given an injection: "Then you can sleep well." He did not have to be afraid, because "we have a doctor with us". The eight guards in total were eventually laid in the garden of Artis.
May 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Van Doorn was told that he would be given an injection: "Then you can sleep well." He did not have to be afraid, because "we have a doctor with us". The eight guards in total were eventually laid in the garden of Artis.
"The captain was 47 to 50 years old, about 1.75 tall, light build, brown complexion, spoke civilly and acted very decisively and gave the impression of really being an officer (...) The captain was in charge of everything and was also addressed as captain by the men."
May 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
"The captain was 47 to 50 years old, about 1.75 tall, light build, brown complexion, spoke civilly and acted very decisively and gave the impression of really being an officer (...) The captain was in charge of everything and was also addressed as captain by the men."
At the forefront
On 27 March 1943, the time has come. Nine men, seven in police uniform, march to the building on Plantage Kerklaan. Captain Willem Arondéus at the front, next to him lieutenant Gerrit van der Veen. One of the overpowered guards, policeman Gerrit van Doorn, later stated:
On 27 March 1943, the time has come. Nine men, seven in police uniform, march to the building on Plantage Kerklaan. Captain Willem Arondéus at the front, next to him lieutenant Gerrit van der Veen. One of the overpowered guards, policeman Gerrit van Doorn, later stated:
May 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
At the forefront
On 27 March 1943, the time has come. Nine men, seven in police uniform, march to the building on Plantage Kerklaan. Captain Willem Arondéus at the front, next to him lieutenant Gerrit van der Veen. One of the overpowered guards, policeman Gerrit van Doorn, later stated:
On 27 March 1943, the time has come. Nine men, seven in police uniform, march to the building on Plantage Kerklaan. Captain Willem Arondéus at the front, next to him lieutenant Gerrit van der Veen. One of the overpowered guards, policeman Gerrit van Doorn, later stated:
In a letter to Hetty: "Think of the Jews, their fear, their despair." For months he works together with the core of the artists' resistance on the preparations for the attack on the Population Register. He is the leader and directs all the details.
May 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
In a letter to Hetty: "Think of the Jews, their fear, their despair." For months he works together with the core of the artists' resistance on the preparations for the attack on the Population Register. He is the leader and directs all the details.
He refuses to become a member of the Kultuurkamer, writes and distributes his Brandaris letters - in which he calls on artists not to become members of the Kultuurkamer and to resist - and sends Jan back to Apeldoorn. Jan must not be in danger.
May 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
He refuses to become a member of the Kultuurkamer, writes and distributes his Brandaris letters - in which he calls on artists not to become members of the Kultuurkamer and to resist - and sends Jan back to Apeldoorn. Jan must not be in danger.
The artists' resistance in which he plays a leading role puts an end to his restlessness. With Gerrit van der Veen and Frieda Belinfante, he forges identity cards under the pseudonym 'Smit'.
May 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The artists' resistance in which he plays a leading role puts an end to his restlessness. With Gerrit van der Veen and Frieda Belinfante, he forges identity cards under the pseudonym 'Smit'.
he writes on 2 January 1940 to his friend Hetta van der Masch Spakler.
After the German invasion, Arondéus goes through an unexpected and unforeseen development. The war forces him to make choices. There is suddenly no more room for torturous doubt about his own identity and his life's purpose.
After the German invasion, Arondéus goes through an unexpected and unforeseen development. The war forces him to make choices. There is suddenly no more room for torturous doubt about his own identity and his life's purpose.
May 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
he writes on 2 January 1940 to his friend Hetta van der Masch Spakler.
After the German invasion, Arondéus goes through an unexpected and unforeseen development. The war forces him to make choices. There is suddenly no more room for torturous doubt about his own identity and his life's purpose.
After the German invasion, Arondéus goes through an unexpected and unforeseen development. The war forces him to make choices. There is suddenly no more room for torturous doubt about his own identity and his life's purpose.
He is not afraid of the time to come. "In these years of fear and poverty, of bitterness and distrust, I have touched the depths so deeply, experienced the insecurity so much, that the misery that is coming no longer frightens me",
May 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
He is not afraid of the time to come. "In these years of fear and poverty, of bitterness and distrust, I have touched the depths so deeply, experienced the insecurity so much, that the misery that is coming no longer frightens me",
Shy in everyday life, powerless in the wiles of self-interest and incapable of compromise, every full reality, every great reality, finds them prepared for the last sacrifice", he writes in his preface. It is 1939 then.
May 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Shy in everyday life, powerless in the wiles of self-interest and incapable of compromise, every full reality, every great reality, finds them prepared for the last sacrifice", he writes in his preface. It is 1939 then.
Choices
The tragedy of the dream becomes the title of the Maris biography. "It only seems so in the small everyday life, as if the dreamers flee from life, have no courage to act, no will to conquer, it only seems so.
The tragedy of the dream becomes the title of the Maris biography. "It only seems so in the small everyday life, as if the dreamers flee from life, have no courage to act, no will to conquer, it only seems so.
May 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Choices
The tragedy of the dream becomes the title of the Maris biography. "It only seems so in the small everyday life, as if the dreamers flee from life, have no courage to act, no will to conquer, it only seems so.
The tragedy of the dream becomes the title of the Maris biography. "It only seems so in the small everyday life, as if the dreamers flee from life, have no courage to act, no will to conquer, it only seems so.
Summer and winter - then with a thick coat on because it is bitterly cold - he works on it, his paperwork illuminated by a single light bulb. It is probably during this time that his friendship with Stedelijk curator Willem Sandberg develops.
May 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Summer and winter - then with a thick coat on because it is bitterly cold - he works on it, his paperwork illuminated by a single light bulb. It is probably during this time that his friendship with Stedelijk curator Willem Sandberg develops.
The dreamer who fought with the communards on the barricades during the uprising in Paris in 1870. In the Stedelijk Museum he sits for hours bent over notes, pieces of paper and messages.
May 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The dreamer who fought with the communards on the barricades during the uprising in Paris in 1870. In the Stedelijk Museum he sits for hours bent over notes, pieces of paper and messages.
In the spring of 1936 he has to sell his cottage. "I have experienced two wonderful years here. I started writing and I have Jan. I have to go back to Amsterdam." Jan scrapes together a living by trading on the Waterlooplein, while Arondéus works on a book about the painter Mathijs Maris.
May 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
In the spring of 1936 he has to sell his cottage. "I have experienced two wonderful years here. I started writing and I have Jan. I have to go back to Amsterdam." Jan scrapes together a living by trading on the Waterlooplein, while Arondéus works on a book about the painter Mathijs Maris.
A 'closed' boy who goes door to door with vegetables. Arondéus goes with him on the cart to the market in Arnhem. "It is a friendship and a softness and a tenderness that I have never known before." He has put aside the visual arts and wants to write, but his short stories are not published.
May 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
A 'closed' boy who goes door to door with vegetables. Arondéus goes with him on the cart to the market in Arnhem. "It is a friendship and a softness and a tenderness that I have never known before." He has put aside the visual arts and wants to write, but his short stories are not published.