Date of birth:

November 26th, 1919 (Harderwijk, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

May 11th, 1942 (Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg/Brandenburg, Germany)

Nationality:

Dutch (1815-present, Kingdom)

Harmen Smink lived in Harderwijk at the Kampweg 23. He was the son of typographer/policeman Geurt Smink (January 1st, 1894, Harderwijk - November 20th, 1930, Amsterdam) and Jacoba Olofsen (August 21st, 1894, Harderwijk - February 5th, 1975, Amsterdam). He was not married and worked as Junior Inspector of Police. He did his military service as sergeant with the motorized Artillery. After the May war in 1940 he joined the resistance. He took care of a radio transmission with England en the spreading of illegal literature. On September 11th, 1941 het was arrested in the Harderwijk Police Office where he worked, by the Sicherheitsdienst charged of spying for the enemy. After first being held at the Huis van Bewaring (City Prison) in Utrecht, he was transferred to the prison in Scheveningen (Oranjehotel), where he stayed until april 1942. He was sentenced to death by a Feldgericht in the prison at the Franciscan Monetry in Maastricht on April 22nd, 1942. Together with 23 other prisoners he was executed in Sachsenhausen on May 11th, 1942. His name was added to the resistance monument at the square of the Patersbaan in Maastricht and on a monument at the Oostergaarde Cemetery on the Oosteinde in Harderwijk.

Smink was cremeted in concentrationcamp Sachsenhausen.

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