Date of birth:

January 4th, 1908 (Vlaardingen/South Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

March 8th, 1945 (Amsterdam/Noord-Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 37. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in IJmuiden, Kennemerlaan 90. Son of Johannes van Leeuwen and Anna Maria Thomas. Unmarried. Unpaid union official, IJmuiden department of the Dutch General Metalworkers' Union. Distribution officer/counter clerk. First Roman Catholic, then no church. Member of the resistance.
Among other things, he organised extra ration cards and identity cards, distributed the illegal magazine Vrij Nederland and was a contributor to the illegal social-democratic publication De Baanbreker. He was arrested at his workplace on 23 February 1945 as a result of betrayal. A pile of illegal papers was found under a blotter on his desk, and that proved to be his undoing. Van Leeuwen was arrested by Jacobus (Ko) Langedijk and Abraham Kipp, police officers who were sympathetic to the Germans. He was taken from the police station in Velsen to the prison on Weteringschans in Amsterdam. As reprisal for the attack on SS-Befehlshaber Hanns Albin Rauter on 6 March 1945 near Woeste Hoeve, Van Leeuwen was executed by firing squad near Rozenoord on the Amsteldijk.
In IJmuiden, the Van Leeuwenstraat was named after him.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Arjo Eijgelsheim
• - Overlijdensakte 69 d.d. 10 april 1945 gemeente Velsen. - Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
  

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