Date of birth:

March 11th, 1908 (Kortezwaag/Friesland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

May 5th, 1943 (Leeuwarden/Friesland, Netherlands)

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Gorredijk. Son of Ruurd Eisenga (carpenter) and Berbera Numan. Married to Tjitske de Groot (two children). Head teacher public primary school. No church. In connection with the April-May strike of 1943, he wanted to keep his school closed as a sign of solidarity with striking farmers, civil servants and workers. This proposal was reported by a local NSB member to the SD in Leeuwarden. On the evening of 3 May 1943, Eisenga was taken from home and asked to accompany him to the Milk Can Factory in Gorredijk. With a female colleague, he was then taken to the Old Civil Orphanage in Leeuwarden, where he very candidly expressed his views. The Polizeistandgericht sentenced him to death for inciting a school strike, which was carried out on 5 May 1943 around a quarter to 11 in the morning at the no longer existing shooting range at Kalverdijkje in Leeuwarden. Farm labourer Harm Bos from Zuidveld was also shot there at the time. On 14 September 1978, a commemorative plaque was installed in the Streekmuseum Opsterland in Gorredijk. Furthermore, his name is on a memorial at the General Cemetery in Gorredijk and, since 4 May 2004, on a small monument in the Appèlbergen nature reserve near Haren. A street in Gorredijk is named after him. He is believed to be buried with other victims of the April May strike in the nature reserve, but the grave has not yet been recovered. At the end of May 2014, his original diary, later supplemented by that of his widow, was published in book form under the title ‘Tjitske's diary’.

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• Photo 1: M. Eizenga
• - OGS Gedenkboek 36 - Amersfoort, Vught, Westerbork, Oorlogsgravenstichting.
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