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Verbunt, Henricus Arnoldus Adrianus Petrus

Date of birth:
December 16th, 1909 (Tilburg, The Netherlands)
Date of death:
May 26th, 1944 (Drunense Dunes, The Netherlands)
Nationality:
Dutch (1815-present, Kingdom)

Biography

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Ambtenaar gemeente Tilburg (Civil servant)
The "Verzetsherdenkingskruis" (Dutch Resistance Memoration Cross) was posthumously awarded to the children of Hendricus A.A.P. Verbunt by the mayor of the city of Tilburg. As a civil servant he helped the resistance by making false identity papers. On 26 May 1944 he was executed by the Germans for his involvement in the assessination of a collaborator named Piet Gerrits.
Verzetsherdenkingskruis (VHK)

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