Date of birth:

April 15th, 1908 (Amsterdam/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

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

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 37. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Groningen, Merelstraat 11a. Son of labourer Willem Stokhof (31 October 1877 Mijdrecht) and Hermina Maria Joxhorst. Married Geessien Weissenbach (12 December 1905 Foxhol) on 1 February 1933 in Amsterdam. The couple had three children. Sergeant in the Marine Corps/bridge operator. Roman Catholic. Stokhof returned from the former Dutch East Indies one week before the German invasion of the Netherlands on 10 May 1940. He took part in the fighting in Rotterdam and was seriously wounded by a bullet to the lung. He was nursed for about a year and rehabilitated at the Kareol convalescent home in Bloemendaal. After being declared fit for work, he got a job as a bridge operator in Groningen. In May 1943, Stokhof refused to return to captivity and went into hiding in Wervershoof. There he began working for the LO-Wervershoof. He was involved in the delivery of ration cards for people in hiding, courier work, forging identity cards and distributing the illegal papers De Wacht and De Nieuwspomp. In September 1944 he became a staff member of the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten - Strijdend Gedeelte subdistrict Enkhuizen and Medemblik. He was also an officer instructor for district III in Hoorn. On 26 January 1945 the Grüne Polizei arrested him, presumably after he had betrayed them. He was transferred via Medemblik and the detention centre in Alkmaar to the detention centre on Weteringschans in Amsterdam. He was executed by firing squad along with 52 others in reprisal for the assassination of SS-Befehlshaber Hanns Albin Rauter on 6 March 1945.
His name is inscribed on the war memorial on Raadhuisplein in Wervershoof. (Source: Heere and Vernooij, The War Graves Cemetery in Bloemendaal).
He was posthumously awarded the Resistance Memorial Cross.

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