Oosterhout, van, Nicolaas Cornelis

Date of birth:: February 28th, 1918 (Dordrecht/Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands)
Date of death:: August 11th, 1944 (Camp Vught (KZ Herzogenbusch), the Netherlands)
Buried on:: Ash Pits Wells Camp Vught
Nationality:: Dutch

Biography

Lived in Rijsbergen, Lagestraat A68. Son of merchant Nico van Oosterhout (7 October 1886 Made en Drimmelen) and Cornelia Antonia Aartsen (26 November 1891 Rotterdam). Unmarried. Professional non-commissioned officer/border guard. Member of the resistance under the alias Nico van Griendsveen and belonging to the Deurne group of the Council of Resistance (RVV). This group was mainly involved in sheltering crashed pilots and sabotage from the De Zwarte Plak farm.

In 1943, he was arrested and transferred to the Amersfoort concentration camp. However, Van Oosterhout managed to escape and went into hiding in Dordrecht and Schaijk in Brabant. Possibly as a result of betrayal by Josephus Matthias Pius Germanus Maria Peerbooms, who was later liquidated, he was arrested on 13 May (Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front) or 17 May 1944 (Het Grote Gebod) at Utrecht Central Station together with resistance fighter Cornelis Klaas Noordermeer (born 12 April 1918 in Lochem).

Via the Scheveningen prison (Oranjehotel), he ended up in Vught. On 11 August 1944, Oosterhout was executed by firing squad together with Noordermeer and others.

Van Oosterhout was cremated in the Vught concentration camp and has no known grave. His name is listed on the war memorial at the place of execution and on the memorial wall in the National Monument Camp Vught, the war memorial in Zundert and the Resistance Monument in America (L).

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