Date of birth:

August 13th, 1910 (Sloten/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

September 22nd, 1943 (Utrecht (Fort de Bilt), Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 40. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Amsterdam, 2e Oosterparkstraat 170-I. Son of Rijk Prins (16 September 1875 Diemen) and Geertruida Hazeleger (16 January 1882 Amsterdam). Married to Antonia Paulina van Dijk, born 22 August 1915, Cologne, Germany. Tailor. No church. Member of the resistance. He worked for the illegal magazine De Waarheid, among others. Prins was also the commander of a Mil-sabotage squad – a sabotage squad of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) – in Amsterdam. He set fire to German warehouses at the Central Market Halls in Amsterdam and placed firebombs in the removal vans of the Puls company, which removed the contents of the homes of Jews who had been deported. Prins was a committed communist. In 1937 he left for Spain and fought there as a member of the International Brigade in the civil war that was raging at the time. Upon his return to the Netherlands he was declared stateless for having enlisted in a foreign army. On 25 November 1942 he was arrested in his home by the Sipo. He was sentenced to death in Utrecht for illegal possession of weapons, membership of the banned CPN and the distribution of illegal literature. On the memorial stone, Prins bears witness to his communist convictions with the text: ‘The struggle of the proletariat is hard, but we are invincible’. He had also written this sentence in his farewell letter. To which he added: ‘Keep your head cool and up, because I am the only one who will not fall. Long live communism!’ His name is on the monument in Fort de Bilt. The date of death incorrectly given is 24 September 1943.
Prins was cremated in Driehuis-Velsen. After the war, his urn was found in Erfurt, East Germany, and reburied in the cemetery of honour in Bloemendaal.

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