Date of birth:

January 2nd, 1883 ('s-Hertogenbosch)

Date of death:

April 15th, 1945 (Sint Pancras)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 21. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Haarlem, Anthoniestraat 5rd. Son of Wilhelmus Habraken and Wilhelmina Jacoba Merkx. Married to Adriana Marina Maria de Rooij. (Six children). Director of printing office Sint Jacobs Godshuis. Roman Catholic. Although not affiliated with a resistance organisation, Habraken did provide work for the underground movement. For example, he printed armbands and identification cards for the Internal Armed Forces, a large quantity of red/white/blue-bordered proclamations, pamphlets and programmes for the upcoming liberation. Unforeseenly, liberation was delayed too long, so some of these items were stored in an attic room of the nearby Roman Catholic Sint Jacob orphanage at 10 Hagerstraat in Haarlem. As a result of betrayal, Habraken was arrested on Sunday 18 March 1945. Upon his arrest, he still threw in the windows at this property. During a search of his home and print shop, the prepared printed matter and related typesetting were found and confiscated. Habraken was transferred to the house of detention on the Weteringschans in Amsterdam. In retaliation for a bomb attack on the railway line near Sint Pancras, he was shot. In Haarlem, a complex of houses between Burgwal and Herenvest was named after him, the so-called Habrakenhof. A stained-glass window was unveiled in the print shop on 3 May 1949.His gravestone reads: , ‘His silence has saved others, Do not forget Father in your prayers’.

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• Photo 1: Jos Gadellaa
• Overlijdensakte B158/1945 gemeente 's-Gravenhage.

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